Alexander Pushkin

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San Pietroburgo

Alexandrinsky Theatre

San Pietroburgo

Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre — Passionate theatergoer; frequently attended opera and ballet at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre on Theatre Square (site of today’s Conservatory).

San Pietroburgo

Bronze Horseman — Wrote the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman (1833), the defining literary work about Falconet’s monument and the Petersburg flood myth.

Tbilisi

Chreli Abano — Pushkin’s 1829 experience at the bath informed his description of Tiflis bathing in Journey to Arzrum.

Kazan

Former Kazan Cloth Manufactory Building — Pushkin examined the old factory buildings in 1833 while researching the social background of the Kazan uprising.

Vilnius

Markučiai Manor — His posthumous family legacy formed the basis of the literary museum established at the estate.

San Pietroburgo

Pushkin House

Mosca

Pushkin Memorial Apartment on Arbat — He began married life here with Natalia Goncharova in 1831.

Mosca

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Nižnij Novgorod

Pushkin State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Kazan

Pushkin Street

Mosca

Pushkinskaya Square and the Passion Monastery Site — His monument was moved across Tverskaya in 1950 and installed on the former monastery site.

Kazan

Sharnaya Hill (Third Hill) — He inspected Sharnaya Hill in 1833 while gathering material used in his History of Pugachev.

Kazan

Site of the Gorlov Tavern — He recorded Vasily Babin’s account of the 1774 fighting during a meeting in the Gorlov Tavern.

Kazan

Sukonnaya Sloboda (Cloth Settlement) — He interviewed a former cloth worker here and used the resulting notes in his account of the siege.

San Pietroburgo

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).

Kazan

Troitskaya Mill Camp Site — He visited the former camp site in 1833 while preparing his historical account of the rebellion.

San Pietroburgo

Winter Palace — As kamer-junker (from 1834) was obliged to attend court ceremonies and balls at the Winter Palace; documented friction with court service.