Literature
Alexander Pushkin
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Commemorated here
Markučiai Manor
His posthumous family legacy formed the basis of the literary museum established at the estate.
Traces in other cities
- Saint Petersburg
- Alexandrinsky Theatre
- Saint Petersburg
- Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre — Passionate theatergoer; frequently attended opera and ballet at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre on Theatre Square (site of today’s Conservatory).
- Saint Petersburg
- Bronze Horseman — Wrote the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman (1833), the defining literary work about Falconet’s monument and the Petersburg flood myth.
- Saint Petersburg
- Pushkin House
- Saint Petersburg
- Summer Garden — Daily haunt while living nearby; wrote to his wife that the Summer Garden was his ‘ogorod’ — morning walks in a dressing gown, afternoon naps and writing there (esp. summer 1834).
- Saint Petersburg
- Winter Palace — As kamer-junker (from 1834) was obliged to attend court ceremonies and balls at the Winter Palace; documented friction with court service.
Follow the story on foot
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