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Moscow – Pushkin square
Pushkin Square is a favorite meeting place for lovers, friends and protestors in Moscow. The famous poet’s statue stands on Tverskaya, Moscow’s central artery.
Who is Pushkin? Russian literature has given the world quite a few big names, but the works of 19th-century Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin run in every Russian’s blood.
The statue, unveiled in 1880, instantly became one of Moscow’s main symbols, although it did not settle in at its present location right away. Before the revolution, the spot was occupied by a convent, while the statue was located across the street. But the convent was destroyed by the Soviet authorities and in 1950 Stalin personally ordered the monument to be moved to its current location. In Stalin’s times the square – named Pushkinskaya, after the poet – was a popular place for concerts and celebrations.
However, in the winter of 1990, in the twilight of the Soviet Union, crowds gathered in the square for a different reason: the opening of the country’s first McDonald’s, which, as part of Western exotica, was a huge event. People queued for hours in the cold to get in for a taste of that foreign food they never knew.
Nowadays, the Pushkin monument is a favorite meeting point for many Muscuvites, while Tverskaya is their favorite street to walk along.
Tverskaya is Moscow’s main street. Tsarist nobility and Soviet celebrities used to live here. Now it is one of Russia’s most expensive shopping areas. It is also home to perhaps the capital’s most iconic monument – that honoring the city’s founder, Yuri Dolgoruky. And on this street, even buildings can walk.
Relocating entire buildings using special rails and rollers was mastered in Russia at the end of the 19th century, and became especially popular in the 1930s, when Moscow’s metro was developed.
Although the technique was eventually thought to be too costly, at the time many buildings in central Moscow were moved around, and just like these “wandering houses,” you might want to wander here for a while, too.
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Pouchkine a construit un monument dans l’âme de chaque personne. Il n’y a pas de russe qui ne connaissait pas par cœur les paroles de sa poésie. La beauté de sa langue est inoubliable, peu importe si c’était de la poésie ou de la prose.
Sur le côté du monument de Pouchkine il y a les paroles d’une de ses œuvres. Je n’arrive pas à trouver la traduction en français. Mais voilà en russe :
Слух обо мне пройдёт по всей Руси великой,
И назовёт меня всяк сущий в ней язык,
И гордый внук славян, и финн, и ныне дикий
Тунгус, и друг степей калмык.