The Vera Cross stood on the right bank of the river of the same name, on what was then Olga Street (now Aziz Aliyev Street), from where the Georgian Military Road begins.
On 12 October 1837, during a journey from Tiflis to Vladikavkaz, the carriage of Nicholas I overturned on a steep and uneven descent due to excessive speed.
Fortunately, the emperor was not injured.
In memory of this incident, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782–1856) ordered a cast-iron memorial cross to be erected at the site.
It was decorated with the Eye of Providence, a passage from Psalm 90 (“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High…”), and the date of the accident.
Sadly, the monument was lost in the early twentieth century.