Yesterday, #Belarusians from #GreatBritain gathered outside the #Lukashenka embassy to commemorate the deceased political prisoner Ales #Pushkin.

The representatives of the Lukashenka regime called the police. However, the police stated that Belarusians have the right to honor… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679391539959562240 #press

#Moscow #museums close to the #Kremlin are being evacuated: #Tretyakov gallery, the #Pushkin museum, cultural centre #GES-2, and the shopping centres Mega Belaya Dacha and Kvartal

In cities across #Russia #Wagner billboards are being dismantled
#Prigozhin #putin

A monument to #Pushkin was demolished in #Riga. He was taken to a warehouse, and later handed over to the Union of Artists. #press

At least 34 #monuments and commemorative plaques to russian #poet alexander #pushkin have been dismantled in Ukraine since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory reported

In cities and towns such as Mukachevo Kramatorsk, Chernihiv, Mykolayiv, Zaporizhzhya, Ternopil, Uzhgorod, Dnipro, Bila Tserkva, and Poltava

Read more here🔗 https://english.nv.ua/life/at-least-34-monuments-to-russia-s-pushkin-dismantled-in-ukraine-news-50316814.html

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine

Vasilii Surikov, 'The Bronze Horseman' (1870)

#Monument to #PeterTheGreat on Senate Square in front of Saint Isaac's #Cathedral, #SaintPetersburg, #Russia

"Pressed to the railings. Darkness filled
His eyes. The prey of passions blazing
Within him, he stood sullenly
Before the royal effigy;
And quivering with fury, raising
His fist, as if compelled by some
Dark force to blind, impulsive action,
He hissed through teeth clenched in distraction:
‘You ... builder of grand schemes! I’ll come
And get you!’ – and then ran off, numb
With terror from a sudden vision:
He thought the fearsome tsar had turned
By slow degrees his face, which burned
With righteous anger and derision..."

#art #Russian #equestrian #statue #french #Falconet #sculpture #tsar #night #snow #winter #moon #poem #Pushkin #Surikov #FullMoon #horse #painting

Monument to #Pushkin in #Kyiv.

@EasternVariant
Kramatorsk Post tweeted "the bust of the Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin has been dismantled in Kramatorsk today by the city's authorities. It stood in the park named after him. Pushkin is sometimes regarded as one of the symbols of Russian empire in Ukraine." #StopRussia #Ukraine #Russia #Pushkin #Kramatorsk

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Picture 1: a close-up of a stone plinth without a bust on top and the plate has been removed.

Picture 2: a shot taken from further away of the empty plinth in Pushkin Park, Kramatorsk. There are empty flower beds and wintery trees in the park.

Picture 3: a closer shot of the rectangle-shaped area on the stone plinth where a metal plate has been removed. The rectangle has interesting patination due to age.

#StandWithUkraine

Got to see The Queen of Spades, Thorold Dickinson’s 1949 Pushkin adaptation. So good! All the classic Russian literary themes - religion, gambling, love - plus a really spooky story.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/21/the-queen-of-spades-review-thorold-dickinson-pushkin

#cinema #Pushkin

After the tranfer of town to Russia, tiny #Savonlinna was place amazing encounters. It appears, young Erik Laxman met in his home town Abram Gannibal, the Russian military commander of #Ethiopian descent. Gannibal was the great-grandfather of Alexander #Pushkin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal?wprov=sfla1

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Alexander Pushkin

#pushkin #RussianLiterature #poetry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_monuments_to_Alexander_Pushkin_in_Ukraine

#pushkin #RussianLiterature #poetry

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_monuments_to_Alexander_Pushkin_in_Ukraine

#pushkin #RussianLiterature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_monuments_to_Alexander_Pushkin_in_Ukraine

On November 20, 2022, unknown persons overthrew the bust of Pushkin in the city of Nikopol.[30]

On November 21, 2022, the monument to Pushkin in the city of Kremenchuk was dismantled.[31]

On November 29, 2022, a memorial plaque to Pushkin was dismantled in the city of Mykolaiv.[32]

On November 29, 2022, a monument to Pushkin was dismantled in the city of Ananiv.[33]

#Pushkin #RussianLiterature

Today in Writing History December 15, 1905: The Pushkin House was established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin, (6/6/1799–2/10/1837). Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He was influenced by Enlightenment writers and thinkers, like Diderot and Voltaire. He spoke out in support of social reform, and wrote poems, like “Ode to Liberty,” leading to the government exiling him from the capital. In 1920 the Pushkin House was renamed the Institute of New Russian Literature, with the main objective of preparing authoritative "academic" editions of works by Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and others.

#LaborHistory #workingclass #fictionwriter #literary #whatiread #pushkin #russia @bookstadon

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts was on fire in Moscow. Russia's main art museum went up in flames as footage sparks panic in Moscow. Russian firefighters rushed to the scene to extinguish the fire. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1707783/Russia-Pushkin-State-Museum-Fine-Arts-fire-blaze-firefighters-Moscow-Putin-latest #museums #Pushkin #Russia #Fire #Russia

https://ruverses.com/alexander-pushkin/to-chaadaev/4046/ ..And whilst with liberty we burn,
And whilst our hearts adore ovation,
Our country needs us, — let us turn
And dedicate our soul’s elation.
My friend, believe me that with thunder,
The star of joy will rise again!
And #Russia will arise from slumber,
Our names will be incised with wonder
On remnants of oppressive reign! Alexander #Pushkin
To #Chaadaev Translated by #AndreyKneller #translation #RussianPoetry #RussianHistory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Chaadayev

🔥 It's hot again in #Mordor: the #Lopukhin estate is on fire there, which is considered part of the #Pushkin #Museum of Fine Arts.

The fire occupied 50 square meters of territory.

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#russia #jews #family #art #literature #poetry #Leningrad #Moscow #revolution #war #Rembrandt #Pushkin #Tolstoy #Mandelstam #Akhmatova #Tsvetaeva #YakovSverdlov #Sebold #selfies #love #death #birth #history #photography #Lyubyanka #Dickens #doctors #soviet #CharlotteSalomon #singing #eating #love #women #men #remembering #memory #mariastepanova

Today's #DecRecs is because as I was walking to the subway just now there was frost riming the leaves & grass on the bike path and the sky was blue and the sun shone on everything and my heart recited — Мороз и солнце, день чудесный! Frost and sunlight, a marvelous day!

The poem is «Зимнее утро» / "Winter morning" by A.S. Pushkin https://ilibrary.ru/text/684/p.1/index.html
And here's a very good English translation: https://ruverses.com/alexander-pushkin/winter-morning/7940/

#poetry #russianpoetry #pushkin #стихи #стихотворение

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXigzuanYs #RussianPoetry- #Pushkin -#Akhmatova -#Pasternak-#Tsvetaeva-#Mandelstam- rus-eng mp3 #parallelText #podcasting #audiobook #RussianLiterature #intercultural #poetry #translation #AndreyKneller