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	The Alexander Pushkin Museum and Memorial Apartment in St. Petersburg, Russia
		The museum is housed in Alexander Pushkin's memorial apartment where he lived between 1836 and 1837, and died after being mortally wounded in a dramatic duel.
		On a wave of nationwide grief for the untimely death of this major Russian literary figure, Pushkin's apartment was carefully preserved and remains a fine example of a nobleman's residence of the 1830s.
		Visitors can step into the museum and see the study of the great poet and writer of the famous epic novel in verse, "Eugene Onegin", and the well-known story "The Queen of Spades", both of which were later turned into operas by the great Russian composer Tchaikovsky.
	www.saint-petersburg.com /museums/pushkin-museum-memorial-apartment.asp (196 words)

	Alexander Pushkin Memorial Museum
		The flat where Pushkin and his family lived was in the dress circle of the mansion.
		The exposition of the museum features Pushkin's death mask and the medallion with a curl of his hair.
		In 1950 in the yard of the mansion located on Moika Embankment, 12 the monument to Alexander Pushkin sculptured by N. Didikin was established.
	www.saint-petersburg-hotels.com /museumpushkin.htm (481 words)

	Всероссийский музей А.С.Пушкина >> The National Pushkin Museum
		The National Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg - one of the oldest literary museums in Russia and the first and the largest National museum dedicated to the poet Alexander Pushkin - was founded in 1879 on the initiative of Professors and students of the Imperial Alexander (formerly, Tsarskoe Selo) Lyceum.
		The main goal of the creation of the Pushkin Museum was to concentrate in it "all materials connected with life and creative work of Alexander Pushkin".
		Life and Creative work" and four memorial branch museums: the Pushkin Apartment Museum, the Lyceum Museum, the Pushkin Country House Museum, and the Nekrasov Apartment Museum, that are located in the buildings nominated the architectural monuments of the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries.
	www.museumpushkin.ru /info/allruseng.php (250 words)

	Alexander Pushkin Literary Museum
		The museum‘s values are divided into the main stock (authentic or rare exhibits of the museum profile) and the subsidiary stock (exhibits, necessary for the museum‘s activities and reflecting their aims).
		In 1940–1949, the museum worked as one of Culture and Education institutions at the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR, in 1949–1955, it belonged to Lithuanian SSR Science Academy, in 1955-1984 - to the Ministry of Culture of the Lithuanian SSR.
		In 1984-1986, the museum, for a period of major repairs was attached to the Culture Administration of the Vilnius City Executive Committee, later, in the yeas 1986-1990, it was reorganised into a sub-unit of Vilnius writers’ memorial museum.
	www.muziejai.lt /Vilnius/Puskino_muziejus.en.htm (1569 words)

	Moscow museums
		The largest historic museum of Russia, the State Historical Museum, was established in 1872 on the initiative of the Russian scientific community.
		The Museum of Moscow History that is one of the oldest Museums of the city was established on the initiative of Russian scientific community in 1896.
		The All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art that was established in 1981 became the first Russian museum with the extensive collection of ethnic arts and crafts as well as modern authors' hand-made masterpieces from all over Russia.
	www.moscow-hotels-russia.com /museums.htm (759 words)

	TEMPLE OF ALEXANDR PUSHKIN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pushkin was born June 6, 1799, in Moscow, into a noble family.
		In 1817 Pushkin was taken into the ministry of foreign affairs in Saint Petersburg; there he mingled in the social life of the capital and belonged to an underground revolutionary group.
		Pushkin continued to draw upon Russian history in two long poems, Poltava (1828) and The Bronze Horseman (1833), and in his novel of the Pugachev rebellion, The Captain's Daughter (1836).
	sangha.net /messengers/pushkin.htm (415 words)

	Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
		The Museum originates from the Cabinet of Fine Arts and Antiquities, established in the 1840s on the initiative of professors and scientists of the Moscow University.
		For the construction of the museum's building the territory of the former Carriage (Kolymazni) court that is in the very center of the city not far from the Kremlin was given by Moscow Duma to the University.
		According to the conception worked out by the first director of the Museum, professor of Moscow University, Doctor of Philology and Art Historian Ivan Tsvetaev (the father of famous Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva) the museum collection was enlarged with the plaster casts of world-famous works of arts treasured in different museums of Europe.
	www.moscow-hotels-russia.com /pushkin.htm (455 words)

	Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, museum of European fine arts in Moscow, Russia.
		Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, privately funded museum of fine art, located in Boston, Massachusetts.
		The art and decorative arts collections of the Museum of Art in Lima, Peru, survey the cultural history of the country from the pre-Hispanic period...
	encarta.msn.com /Pushkin_Museum_of_Fine_Arts.html (168 words)

	Alexander Pushkin Literary Museum
		The museum‘s values are divided into the main stock (authentic or rare exhibits of the museum profile) and the subsidiary stock (exhibits, necessary for the museum‘s activities and reflecting their aims).
		Later the questions of immortalising the memory of A. Pushkin in Vilnius took over under its care a government of the formed Lithuanian SSR that in the fourth decade established a museum in memory of the poet.
		In 1984-1986, the museum, for a period of major repairs was attached to the Culture Administration of the Vilnius City Executive Committee, later, in the yeas 1986-1990, it was reorganised into a sub-unit of Vilnius writers’ memorial museum.
	muziejai.mch.mii.lt /Vilnius/Puskino_muziejus.en.htm (1569 words)

	Russian Art Museum, Antonova - JRL 7-27-03 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Museum director Irina Antonova, reflecting on a career marked by frequent battles at the intersection of art and politics, was discussing the final years of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin when there was a knock at the door of her office — and in walked Gina Lollobrigida.
		What ultimately became the Pushkin Museum was established in the late 19th century and opened in 1912 as the Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts, a teaching institution associated with Moscow University.
		By the time it was renamed in 1937 to honor the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, the museum also had great European paintings from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/7268-13.cfm (2234 words)

	Pushkinskij Dom > Collections > A.S. Pushkin
		In 1880 after Pushkin monument had been unveiled in Moscow the poet’s elder son transferred all Pushkin’s manuscripts that had been kept in his family to the custody of Rumyantsevsky Museum.
		In 1928, when this museum with its vast pictorial, book and manuscript Pushkin materials arrived from Paris, 67 Pushkin’s originals were united with the poet’s autographs from the archive of Trigorskoe village, collections of P.A.Efremov, P.A.Pletnev, Great Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, L.N.Maikov, I.A.Shlyapkin, Y.K.Grot, that had by then already become the property of Pushkinsky Dom.
		When today on a table in Pushkin depositary these evidence of the poet’s last days come together again, as they had done on January 27, 1837, one cannot but experience deep emotions and a feeling of gratitude to all those whose efforts contributed to the unification, study and description of Pushkin fund.
	www.pushkinskijdom.ru /Default.aspx?tabid=1241 (1463 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Alexander Pushkin
		In 1881, the Pushkin Prize was established in Russia, awarded to Russian (later Soviet) authors who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence.
		It is also the greatest masterpiece of Russian literature -- the source of the human archetypes and the attitudes that define and govern the towering fictional creations of 19th-century Russia -- and one of the most celebrated poems of the world.
		Before Alexander Pushkin (1788-1837) wrote Eugene Onegin, his nation's literature was a parochial one; after he wrote it, due in no small part to its power and influence, the Russian tradition became one of the central traditions of Western civilization.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/pushkin (166 words)

	Pushkin Fine Arts Museum Tour in Moscow. Excursion. Travel and tour to Russia. Moscow City Tour and Novodevichy ...
		The solemn ceremony of stone laying of the Museum took place on August 17, 1898 in the presence of the Emperor Nicholay II and members of the royal family.
		In 1932 it became the State Museum of Fine Arts and a little later was renamed in honour of Alexander Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet.
		The beginning of post Stalin era in the Museum was marked with the demonstration in 1955 of masterpieces from the Dresden Picture Gallery, saved by Soviet solders from annihilation in the Second World War and fully restored by the Pushkin Museum's experts.
	www.bestrussiantour.com /dailyfiles/epushkinm.htm (403 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		Pushkin is the "encyclopaedia of Russian life", said Vissarion Belinsky, the famous Russian critic of the 19th century.
		For Russia Pushkin is a phenomenon of literary, cosmic and psychological scope...
		Pushkin is the quintessence of the European culture.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch7_eng.html (2260 words)

	Moscow Travel Guide: St Basil Cathedral
		Since its official inauguration in 1912, the museum was named after Emperor Alexander III and the name was later changed in honor of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
		The first exhibits of the museum were copies of sculptural works by the Ancient Greek and Italian Renaissance masters whose originals were kept in German and English private collections and museums.
		Following a Stalin's order the Museum of Modern Western Art was closed, and the Impressionist collection was divided between the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage.
	www.travelinrussia.com /moscow_sightseeing/pushkin_museum.html (274 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
		The British Museum's director says the marbles are "indispensable" and "cannot be lent to any museum." The contretemps reportedly prompted the recent statement by 18 prominent museum directors defending the right of museums to retain long-held foreign antiquities.
		During his three weeks in the museum’s department of Greek and Roman antiquities he found that: o Pieces from the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, were among hundreds of artefacts that had gone missing in storerooms.
		One museum assistant said: “We have functions in the sculpture rooms, which is deadly because these people just want to get drunk in nice surroundings.” One big donor threatened to withdraw her funding from the museum when she was told that she could not drink red wine in one of the galleries during a party.
	www.museum-security.org /02/154.html (9697 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		Currently on show in the Hermitage Museum are three exhibitions in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of celebrated Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin:
		Alexander Pushkin and the Winter Palace, including paintings, drawings,sculptures and applied art.There are portraits of Pushkin's numerous famous contemporaries.
		The earliest object associated with Pushkin is a medal commemorating the 25th anniversary of his death.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/04/b2003/hm4_1c.html (0 words)

	Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts \| Moscow Sights & Activities \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		One of the finest art museums in Russia, the Pushkin is famous for its Gauguin, Cézanne, and Picasso paintings, among other masterpieces.
		Founded by Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetayev (1847-1913) of Moscow State University, father of poet Marina Tsvetaeva, the museum was originally established as a teaching aid for art students, which explains why a large part of its collection is made up of copies.
		It was renamed for Pushkin in 1937, on the centennial of the Russian poet's death.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=moscow@107&cur_section=sig&property_id=29968 (0 words)

	Museums, Пушкин, Царское Село, Pushkin, Tsarskoe Selo, Tsarskoye Selo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The museum is located in an elegant house, a unique monument of Russian wooden architecture.
		The museum stop offers 37 theme lectures as well as exciting guided walking tours of the town, each reviving the moments of the past.
		The museum is especially interesting for children of all ages.
	www.pushkin-town.net /.pushkin/eng/nowmuseu.htm (353 words)

	Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Closed for Investing - Kommersant Moscow
		The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Director Irina Antonova, left, and Bosco di Ciliegi President Mikhail Kusnirovich attend a meeting of Federal Agency of Culture dedicated to museum’s rebuilding.
		The greatest sensation was that the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts would close in 2009, its project would be ordered to a famous foreign architect and a portion of area given to some private investor.
		And last but not least, according to proposed procedures for rebuilding, the Pushkin Museum’s dwelling-house of 1914 (the area is 8,000 sq meters; around $100 million in today’s prices) will go to a private investor.
	www.kommersant.com /p761812/Pushkin_museum_rebuilding (392 words)

	WWW Virtual Library : Museums in Russia
		Comprised of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, we are the largest public arts institution in the City of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums in the United States.
		Museum possesses a number of unique materials such as materials of the Turaevo cemetery with the burial mounds of the Vth century A.D., Bolshe-Tigansky cemetery of the ancient madiars, Bolshe-Tarhansky cemetery of the early bolgars, collections from Siberia, Middle Asia, Northern Caucases, and also archaeological materials from Switzerland, Ancient Greece and Roman colones.
		The Museum of Peacekeeping Operations is unique one in Russia devoted to peacemaking activity of the world community.The idea to establish a Museum on UN Peacekeeping was born at the 1-st Russian National Conference «Peace-keeping Operations.
	icom.museum /vlmp/russia.html (10229 words)

	Pushkin Museum
		The Museum was opened on May 31, 1912 as a Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III under the University of Moscow, but the solemn ceremony of stone laying of the Museum took place on August 17, 1898 in the presence of the Emperor Nikolas II and members of the royal family..
		The Museum has been constructed in the centre of the city on the territory of the former Carriage court (Kolymazni) not far from the Kremlin and turned by the Moscow Duma to the University for this purpose in 1895-1898 by Roman.J.Klein.
		In 1991 the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts acquired a status of the "Institution of particularly valuable cultural heritage of the Russian Federation".
	www.russia-moscow-hotels.com /sights/push.htm (399 words)

	The My Hero Project - Alexander Pushkin
		Pushkin's skeptical mind and sense of irony helped him capture what it means to be Russian, winning the hearts of his countrymen.
		As a nobleman in the early 1800's, Pushkin led a reckless and generally nonproductive life, typical of noblemen, while on the staff of the ministry of foreign affairs.
		Pushkin was wounded in a duel and died on January 29, 1837.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=a_pushkin (1527 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
		In the lead-up to the 200th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's birth, the city promised to establish a museum to the poet's uncle.
		While the Alexander Pushkin Museum is city-owned, the house on Staraya Basmannaya is the property of the Russian Federation.
		"Vasily Pushkin was a very interesting figure in the history of literature on his own merits," said Natalya Mikhailova, deputy director of the Alexander Pushkin Museum's research department.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2004/03/12/103.html (1229 words)

	Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
		The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is in Moscow, in Russia.
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	Welcome to Moldova!
		On September 21, 1820 he reached the capital of Moldova, Chisinau, and settled down in the house of General Inzov (today a museum).
		While in Chisinau Pushkin was often present among the elite of our cultural world and the classic writers of Romanian literature: C.Stamati, C. Negruzzi, Donici Family, etc.
		The "A.S.Pushkin" house and museum are situated in Chisinau, 19, Anton Pann str.
	www.turism.md /eng/museums/19 (175 words)

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