by Anni Pelmeni
Make your hazardous guess what is the most favoured monument in Moscow? That will be Pushkin monument on Pushkin Square (metro Pushkinskaya, Tchekchovskaya, Tverskaya).
This monument was erected 6.06.1880 to celebrate 81 years since Pushkin’s birth. Surely everyone has made an appointment to meet there at least once in his/her life. In the evenings it is quite impossible to get through the crowd there: too many people try to meet their dates/ friends/ colleagues.
The reason for such a massive love: (1) logistic - the Pushkin Square is easily accessible from any part of the city as 3 Metro lines intersect here; (2) culture – Pushkin is indeed the most beloved Russian poet and the person whose influence and meaning for Russian culture is undeniable and we always have a line or two from his poems popping into the mind while waiting there; (3) – this monument is one of few which was funded through national fundraising.
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It will look like this: The most favourite monument of Moscow people
Февраль 2nd, 2008 at 03:49
[…] cultural or historical explorations of Moscow. There is of course Pushkin square in Moscow with the Pushkin monument. Pushkin square as we know it nowadays is the product of Stalin’s Grand Plan of Moscow’s […]