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St. Petersburg commemorates 173 years since Pushkin’s death

Tags: Alexander Pushkin, Culture, Russia, News
 
Feb 10, 2010 02:13 Moscow Time
Alexander Pushkin. Photo: RIA Novosti
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On Wednesday, February 10, Russia commemorates 173 years since the death of its greatest poet Alexander Pushkin. In St. Petersburg, many people traditionally gather near the house on the Moyka embankment where the poet had his last flat. On February 8, 1837 Pushkin, severely wounded in a duel, was brought there and died three days later. Now the flat is Pushkin’s museum. The children’s choir of St. Petersburg’s TV and Radio company, that for many years has been performing at the Pushkin’s commemoration ceremony, will sing Mozart’s Requiem. A good surprise for Pushkin’s connoisseurs will be the choir of the Tikhvin monastery with hymns and Russian folk songs that the poet loved so much. From Pushkin’s flat, the museum’s visitors will go to the church at Konyushennaya square where Pushkin’s funeral service took place.

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