Many admirers of Russian poetry does not know where he is buried genius of world literature Pushkin.Pushkin's grave is located in the Holy Monastery Museum, which is incorporated in the Pushkin Reserve.The poet himself often visited the walls of an ancient monastery, speaking to pilgrims and the philistine, recording folk songs, poems, said.
death of Alexander Pushkin
Pushkin was killed in a duel on January 29 and February 10 in the old style, in 1837.Officially, the time and place of the funeral of the writer were announced at the last moment: friends of Alexander recalled that during his life he expressed his desire to be buried in the Pskov province.
Body escorted under strict supervision, but without great honor: the royal authorities were afraid of public demonstrations.The coffin was taken out of the poet from St. Petersburg, accompanied by an officer of gendarmes and secret.Conduct Pushkin final journey was only his close friend Alexander Turgenev.In his diaries later found a record of 2 February, which states that he was appointed as an escort for a deceased friend.However, the direction and the destination of the movement "the process", he did not know.About destination Turgenev reported only a few hours before departure.He wrote to his sister that went from February 2 stables of the monastery, he had to sit in the tent with the postman, slightly behind the body, while the captain of the gendarmes sat in front.A friend of the dead man also says in the letter that the guy with the big weight of Pushkin accompanied him on his last journey, standing on the roadside and follow the coffin to the grave.A friend of the poet did not cheat, uncle of the poet Nikita Kozlov was genuinely shocked by what had happened and did not want to let go so easily nephew.
In the Mikhailovsky tears and sorrow, too, was enough, because just a few months ago, in April 1836, there were his mother's funeral Pushkin N. A. Pushkin.Alexander immediately farmed out a place near the grave of her mother.
In memory of the great poet
poet was buried near St. Michael.It was a frosty February morning, and Pushkin's grave was almost naked, with only one wooden cross.Only a few years later his wife, Natalia, put here a marble obelisk.The monument was erected on the grave in 1940.Most likely, in the same year it was built and the crypt, which holds the remains of Pushkin and his mother.Pushkin's grave is still modest and not too pretentious.Strict monument on three slabs of granite arch type has a niche where stands a marble urn.Above the niche visible crossed torches above is a laurel wreath.
On posthumous obelisk carved inscription where the name, surname, father's name and the years of the poet's life.
place where the tomb of Pushkin (it is represented by a photo in the paper), impregnated with the atmosphere of solemnity and lyricism.Admirers of the immortal talent Pushkin flock here from all over the world to commemorate the famous Russian writer and poet.But in this particular degree of awe and reverence can be felt on the day of the All-Union Pushkin festival, which is regularly held in the reserve.
