Vojislav Ilic Memorial Bust was put up in 1903 with the funds provided by the Board of Belgrade Girls. It is the work of sculptor Jovan Pesic.

Vojislav Ilic (186 –1894) was a poet and descendant of a renowned Belgrade family. He is the pioneer of modern lyrics in Serbian literature. He dedicated his poem Over Belgrade to Belgrade. In his poem Freedom Herald he depicts the imprisonment of Rigas Ferairos in Nebojsa Tower.