The Svatobor association's first undertaking was to commission a monument for the author and national revivalist Václav Hanek at Vyšehrad Cemetery, followed soon after by a similar monument for the poet František Ladislav Čelakovský at Olšany. For this latter project, the association turned to the era's most prominent Prague architect, Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann.
The patriotic club referred to the unusual tombstone design as a "tumulus," in reference to the ancient Slavic past from which they drew inspiration for a glorious future. Svatobor had a similar monument with columns built at Vyšehrad Cemetery in honor Jan Evangelista Purkyně. Later projects were nevertheless of a more standard design. The main desired quality of these first "tumuli" was their conspicuous nature. In terms of decorative elements, the cylindrical sandstone memorial was most inspired by the Romanesque style. The bottom half is a four-sided block with an inscription on one side and columns on the corners, set on bases with corner claws. Above this, the monument is hexagonal in shape, with blind windows and a cupola, on top of which is a bronze sculpture representing the Svatobor association: a circle held by three hands, a reference to the organization's slogan "Help – Enlighten– Remember."
Though dedicated to the leading Czech poet František Ladislav Čelakovský, the other side of the monument pays a deserved tribute to his second wife Antonie (née Reissová), who wrote under the pseudonym Bohuslava Rajská. This extraordinary woman established the first girl's educational institute where instruction was in Czech. Besides teaching at the universities in Prague and Breslau (today's Wrocław), Čelakovský was also a highly productive author and poet, and in addition to his scientific and academic writings he gained renowned for his poetry collections Ohlas písní českých (Echoes of Bohemian Songs) and Ohlas písní ruských (Echoes of Russian Songs), of which several poems were popularized in song.
The tall, slender monument stands in close proximity to two monuments commemorating individuals with whom Čelakovský is linked by family ties and shared patriotic activities: the lawyer Josef Jan Frič and Dr. Václav Staněk, who were married to sisters of Antonie Reissová.
Today, there is a clear disconnect between the historical significance of the deceased (as reflected by the size of their monuments) and the difficulty of accessing their graves in an abandoned section of the cemetery. In the past, the main paths led along the cemetery walls, and it is here that the richest graves with sculptural decoration were initially located, joined over time by the graves of leading personalities such as Karel Havlíček Borovský, Bernard Bolzano, and Josef Jungmann.






