capital associated With key events in the fate of Alexander Pushkin where he was born, was married to Natalia Goncharova and, of course, created some of his great works. On the streets of Moscow he went to balls and meeting new friends here back from Michael’s.
In honor of the 221 anniversary of the birth of poet the capital’s Committee for tourism and the project tell us about the places in Moscow, which he loved.
the Future great poet was born in the house on the corner of Malaya Pochtovaya street and Hospital lane. At that time Pushkin lived in a rented apartment in the house Skvortsova. The Alexander was confused, speaking about the address of his birth, biographers believe that it was a German settlement. And although the wooden building was burned during the fire of 1812, it is believed that it stood on the site of the modern house 4.
Baptized our little Sasha in the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo. The building of the refectory, which was a place of ritual, preserved until now.
the Members of the Pushkin family moved frequently, but he preferred the area between kharitonyevsky lane and Clean ponds. At the Local alley, Pushkin with his parents went to Church, there he was walking in the garden and visiting my grandmother Maria Hannibal. These childhood memories have been reflected in works of classical music. So, a small house on the corner of Big and Small Kharitonyevsky lanes appeared in the pages of “Eugene Onegin.”
the Uncle of the poet Vasily Lvovich Pushkin also lived in Moscow, in a mansion on Staraya Basmannaya. Returning of Michael, Alexander went to the Emperor and then called for his uncle. Today in a yellow one-story house on Old Basil L. Basman is a chamber Museum.
Center for literary criticism in 20th years of the XIX century was a building on Povarskaya street, which belonged to count Sheremetev. It was there in 1828 Pushkin had read chapters of the poem “Poltava” your friends: Colonel Sergey Kiselyov, Pyotr Vyazemsky and count Fyodor Tolstoy.
With his future wife Natalya Goncharova, the poet also met in Moscow. In December 1828 they met at a ball in the house Kologrivovyh on Tverskoy Boulevard. A few months later, Pushkin proposed to her. Mother Natalia for a long time did not consent to the marriage, but three years later, on 2 March 1831 in the temple at Nikitsky gate, the ceremony of the wedding.
After the wedding, the couple moved to a cozy rented apartment on the Arbat. It was five rooms with a bedroom and living room. Pushkin and Goncharova lived there for three months, often taking guests and arranging the balls. To this day it has a memorial muzei opened in the 1970s.
the Estate of princes Baryatinsky, Alexander purchased Khrushchev became the center of social life of that time. In the renovated house were regularly held balls, a frequent visitor whom was a poet. In the XX century the manor had passed the fate of the other noble buildings it was destroyed and turned into a Museum. First, here exhibited toys, then organized an exhibition on the works of Mayakovsky, and since 1957 the estate was devoted to Pushkin.
43 years after the poet’s death, 6 June 1880 in the Holy (now Pushkinskaya) square was opened by his monument. It Pushkin appeared in a thoughtful pose with his head bowed. The monument is organically fit into the image of Moscow that it is now impossible to imagine Tverskaya street without him. And although in 1950 the sculpture was moved to the other side, the monument of work of Alexander Opekushin and remained a landmark for admirers of the poet.
the monument to Pushkin can be seen in the courtyard of the Studio of the sculptor Alexander Rukavishnikov, which is close to the New Arbat.
