Monuments to cultural workers in Russia

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is a monument to a great Russian composer and conductor

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is located in Moscow in Bolshaya Nikitskaya street. Tchaikovsky monument sculpture is made from bronze, the pedestal is made from red granite. The composer is depicted sitting in a chair in front of a music stand where an open music book lies. It seems that his right hand with a pencil is ready to write a musical phrase, and the left counts the beats of the melody.

is probably one of the most important monuments you could

visit if you're interested in Russian culture. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was one of the most brilliant Russian poets, and he surely deserves his monument to be put in the center of our city.

Monument to the great Russian poet S. Esenin (sculptor –

A. Bichukov, architect – A. Klimochkin) was opened in 1995 on Tverskoy Boulevard, and is established for the 100th anniversary of the poet between the Drama Theatre named after Pushkin and the building of Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky.

The famous Russian/Ukrainian author is closely associated with St

Petersburg as he lived and worked here and wrote a cycle of short stories set in St Petersburg which often focused on the then capital's corruption, class system and bureaucracy. The statue was unveiled in 1997 and depicts the author in a typical gloomy pose.

Standing next to the River Neva between Ulitsa Shpalernaya and

Naberezhnaya Robespera (Robespierre Embankment), this is one of four monuments in the city to the great 20th century poet Anna Akhmatova. Erected in 2006 to mark the 40th anniversary of the poet's death, this striking statue is symbolically located opposite Kresty Holding Prison, where both Akhmatova's partner, the art critic Nikolay Punin, and son, Lev Gumilev, were incarcerated repeatedly during the 1930s. 

The monument to Yu.V. Nikulin (sculptor – A.I. Rukavishnikov, architects

– M.M. Posokhin, A.G. Kochekovsky) was unveiled on September 3, 2000 near the Circus. The sculptor casted a smaller size cabriolet from the film “Kavkazskaya Plennitsa”.

Situated on Bolotnaya Ploschad opposite the pedestrian bridge across the

Vodootvodny Canal is a statue of one of Russian's finest painters - Ilia Repin. Repin was famous for his paintings of historical scenes and for his portraits, many of which can be seen in the nearby State Tretyakov Gallery. The statue, which depicts Repin with paint brushes in his hand, was unveiled in 1958 and is the work of the famous sculptor Matvey Manizer.

Vysotsky was an iconic Soviet and Russian singer, songwriter, poet, and

actor of mixed Jewish and Russian descent whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture.

square opposite to the building of the Russian Academy of

Artists is a statue of the artist Vasili Surikov. Surikov worked in the 19th century and is most famous for his paintings depicting historical scenes such as 'Morning of the Streltsy's Execution', 'The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak' and 'Boyarynya Morozova'. The bronze monument was unveiled in 2003 and depicts Surikov standing next to his easel.