Memorial Day Pushkin.

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today in St. Petersburg, Pushkin Memorial Day.
In areas associated with the name of the great poet of the verse, flowers, intelligent PERSON.



The history of the monument dates back to 1936, when the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted a decision to erect a monument to the 100th anniversary of the poet's death. In 1937 he was an All-Union competition to design the monument. It was originally supposed to install it on Vasilievsky Island, on Market Square. It was renamed Pushkin, the solemn laying of the monument. However, none of the contestants could not provide a decent project and as a result on the Vasilievsky Island monument has not been established.
After the war in 1947 has been declared the new All-Union competition for the design of the monument to Alexander Pushkin in Leningrad. The first three rounds of the winner is. Sculptor LD Muravin and architect. I. Karakis got the second prize. In 1949, at the IV stage of the competition open your sketch presented thirty-two young sculptor Michael Anikushin, a recent graduate of the Academy of Arts. As a result, his sketch was approved by the commission. Solemn laying of the monument took place in 1949, the 150th anniversary of his birth.
While working on the final version of the monument Anikushin created a large number of sculptures and graphic portraits of Pushkin, and figure compositions of the poet for the Moscow University (1953) and the Leningrad metro station "Pushkinskaya" (1955). "A magnificent monument, which now adorns the Square of Arts in Leningrad - wrote in 1958, B. Johansson - was created by the sculptor has, after a state commission took earlier made his version of the monument to Pushkin. However Anikushin found it perfect and not enough on their own resources has created a new, deeper and more complete model of the monument to the great Russian poet. "
Monument to Alexander Pushkin Anikushin sculptor and architect VA Petrov was established June 19, 1957 in Leningrad in Arts Square in front of the State Russian Museum.
(From Wikipedia)