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	Pushkin Square (Moscow) -- June 6, 1986
		Not that I was a specialist in Russian or a student of Pushkin.
		There, on Pushkin Square, after about five hours around the statue of the poet, my relation to Russia was permanently established.
		Such animation and vitality (in a toothless peasant of her age) — as she periodically switched the rather full sack from hand to hand (the stone being damp from the light falling rain) — I simply, again, could not believe what I was seeing.
	www.geocities.com /americanreflections/Pushkin_Square-June_6_1986.html (1471 words)

	Russian culture navigator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pushkin era is an age of the enlightenment.
		Pushkin was the first to understand that literature is a national cause of primary importance.
		Pushkin also said: "Moscow's streets are younger than Moscow's beauties" by which he meant that the reconstruction of the city after the fire of 1812.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch75_eng.html (1836 words)

	Pushkin Square - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pushkin Square in Moscow, historically known as Strastnaya Square and renamed for Alexander Pushkin in 1937, is located at the junction of the Boulevard Ring and the Tverskaya Street.
		It is not only one of the busiest city squares in Moscow, but also one of the busiest in the world.
		At the center of the square is a famous statue of Pushkin, funded by public conscription and opened by Ivan Turgenev and Feodor Dostoevsky in 1880.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pushkin_Square (152 words)

	Vilnius squares and streets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The square was surrounded by four rows or pyramid poplars and decorative bushes and enclosed by a wooden fence.
		In 1908 and 1914 the square was redeveloped again - the grass was planted and the fence built.
		In 1860 the Square of St. George was built here, and in 1865 a chapel of Alexander Newski in commemoration of Russian soldiers killed during the revolt of 1963 was built in the middle of the square.
	archeonas.webs.lt /famweb/Lithuania/city_squares.htm (825 words)

	Tashkent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1899 when century of A. Pushkin's birthday was celebrated, one of the major streets of new city at the request of its inhabitants was called by the name of the Great Russian poet.
		Along Pushkin Street since 1902, the line of the horse railway (horse tramway), and since 1913 - a tram was laid.
		Now the Pushkin street is stretched up to Salar aryk and comes to an end by Pushkin square where there is a monument of the great Russian poet.
	tashkent.freenet.uz /e_ps.htm (283 words)

	Pushkin Square Project Set to Begin Next Year
		The Pushkin Square project is the most developed of these plans.
		Engin Colpan, regional director of Turkish construction company Alarko, which rebuilt the Actors' Gallery on the edge of the square in the early 1990s, said construction would be immensely complicated and expensive, given all the transport lines and utilities running over and under the square.
		Not only does the square have three metro stations and lines underneath it, but it is also divided by Tverskaya Ulitsa, one of Moscow's busiest thoroughfares, and all regular lines of communication will have to be kept open during construction.
	www.archi.ru /english/press/munro/mt111201.htm (836 words)

	Pushkin Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Not that I was a specialist in Russian or a student of Pushkin.
		There, on Pushkin Square, after about five hours around the statue of the poet, my relation to Russia was permanently established.
		Such animation and vitality (in a toothless peasant of her age) – as she periodically switched the rather full sack from hand to hand (the stone being damp from the light falling rain) – I simply, again, could not believe what I was seeing.
	archive.1september.ru /eng/2000/no21_3.htm (1471 words)

	TheMoscowTimes.com - Pushkin Square Bombing
		Prosecutors said the Aug. 8 explosion under Pushkin Square was likely the settling of economic scores.
		Muscovites on Wednesday were slowly picking up after Tuesday's deadly explosion beneath Pushkin Square.
		Investigators on Wednesday detained two men from the Caucasus suspected of involvement in the Pushkin Square explosion but said they were not yet convinced they had found the right men and were still looking.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /indexes/98.html (577 words)

	Sokol Tours: Tours: Culture: The Czar of Russian Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He has statues dedicated to him across the country, and most towns and cities have a “Pushkin Street.” But St. Petersburg was the city where Alexander Pushkin spent most of his adult life, and he eventually died there from wounds suffered in a duel.
		Pushkin’s memorial museum on Moyka 12: this is the apartment where Pushkin lived with his family for the last two years of his life.
		Pushkin’s memorial museum on Moyka Street is closed on Tuesdays and last Fridays of each month.
	www.sokoltours.com /tours2.phtml?m=108 (680 words)

	Winne.com - Welcome
		Red Square is the centre of Moscow, in which is located Lenin's tomb, built in 1929 at the foot of the Kremlin wall.
		One side of Red Square is occupied by GUM, the state department store, which used to be one of two state indoor shopping malls during soviet times, alongside ZUM, or the central state department store.
		The Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum, the major foreign art museum, is a monumental building, on the opposite side of the street from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
	www.winne.com /russia/bf11.html (867 words)

	The Moscow News
		The Pushkin Square somehow preserved its unique spirit as a truly universal city forum, equally suitable for political meetings and love dates.
		The initial name of the square was Strastnaya, after the name of the Strastnoy monastery, demolished in the late 1930s.
		That was the first time the name of the poet Alexander Pushkin gets connected with the square, for Tverskoy boulevard was one of his favorite walking places.
	english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2006-5-24 (566 words)

	Castle Hill and its Surroundings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As the result of reconstruction of 1938-1940 done according to designs of the Polish architect R.Gutt, and later of Lithuanian V.Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, the square was replaced by a new square in the shape of the nation’s forum.
		A monument to A. Pushkin was built in 1904, which gave the place the name of Pushkin’s Square.
		The part of the square from the side of River Neris up to the Cathedral was developed in 1883m.
	archeonas.webs.lt /famweb/Lithuania/castle_hill.htm (1976 words)

	Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen - ifa-galleries - CITY VIEWS - Plan Cabinet Moscow. Places of a Capital - Pushkin ...
		Pushkin square is situated at the crossing of the main road of Moscow's center and the Strastnoy Boulevard.
		After its demolition, the place was renamed to Pushkin square on the occasion of the poet's hundredth birthday in 1937.
		In order to reshape the place, several competitions took place in the twenties, and it thus became one of the most important places in the history of Russian avant-garde architecture.
	www.ifa.de /galerien/moskau/epuschkin.htm (125 words)

	Pushkin Square A (o), Apartments in St. Petersburg, Moscow apartments, Kiev apartments and Apartments in Russia
		Pushkin Square A (o), Apartments in St. Petersburg, Moscow apartments, Kiev apartments and Apartments in Russia
		Café Pushkin with its 19-th century atmosphere is the queen mother of Russian and French cuisine.
		Night Flight, on the other hand, is a modern restaurant/night club that successfully competes with world top rank restaurants and is therefore frequented by the posh upper class of Moscow.
	www.besthotelsrussia.com /hotel_Pushkin-Square-A-(o)/russia_hotels.html (580 words)

	Pushkin Club: home
		Pushkin Club remains an independent organization devoted to the promotion of Russian culture, particularly through the arts.
		The Pushkin House Trust is a distinct organization from the Club.
		Pushkin House is a listed Grade 2* building which dates back to the 18th century and was the birthplace and home of the young Disraeli.
	www.pushkinclub.org.uk (318 words)

	Welcome to Access PBN: PBN•Moscow’s New ...
		The church was closed in 1922 by Soviet authorities, but reopened in all its glory in 1992 on Uspensky Pereulok to its former grace and splendor.
		With its statue of the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, the plaza is, as one writer puts it, “much more happening than Red Square.” A constant hub of social and political gatherings, festivals and commerce, Pushkin Square is one of the busiest and well-known landmarks in Moscow.
		The statue of Pushkin was built in 1880, the first to honor a Russian poet.
	www.imakenews.com /accesspbn/e_article000094900.cfm (544 words)

	moscow
		By the late16th Century, it was renamed Trinity Square, and served as the main entrance to the Kremlin.
		In 1830 the square was renamed Teatralnaya (Theater) Square and it was given its present name in 1919.
		In the northern part of the square stands the Bolshoi Theater with a monumental colonnade and quadriga of bronze horses on its pediment, which has become one of the symbols of Moscow.
	www.villagegreendenison.com /moscow.htm (1130 words)

	Books \| Shoppers threaten to topple father of Russian literature
		The statue of Pushkin is a meeting place for lovers and businessmen alike.
		Conservationsts and the square's residents - many of them famous figures drawn from the world of arts and culture - are up in arms.
		Russia's first McDonald's was built on the edge of the square in 1990, signaling the rapid development to come.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329563420-99819,00.html (849 words)

	Master: Pushkin Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pushkin Square, named for Alexander Pushkin, is located on the Boulevard Ring at the junction of Tverskaya.
		In this 1920s photo Tverskaya runs from left to right, while the trees of the Boulevard Ring are visible on the diagonal.
		At the center of the square is a famous
	cr.middlebury.edu /public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/pushkinskaia.html (90 words)

	Travel Information to Russia, Russia tours, escorted Russian tours with various tour operators from budget to luxury ...
		The Hermitage is a museum that ranks with the Louvre, Prado, British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
		Stroll the Nevsky Prospekt, the city's main street for shopping and restaurants, and St. Isaac's Cathedral which is also home to the Pushkin Theatre, the Gorky Drama Theatre and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
		Pushkin is the home of the Catherine Palace.
	www.escortedrussiantours.com /travelinformation.htm (1113 words)

	New Details, No Answers in 2000 Blast
		Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Vladimir Udalov attending a ceremony Thursday marking the second anniversary of the explosion that killed 13 in the Pushkin Square underpass.
		Igor Tabakov / MT A passerby glancing at the new memorial Wednesday to those who died in the 2000 explosion in the Pushkin Square underpass.
		On the eve of the second anniversary of the blast in the Pushkin Square underpass that killed 13, city prosecutors released new details about how the attack was staged but acknowledged that they have failed to make any arrests.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/730824/posts (731 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		December 8, 1975 Confidential #3039-A Copy #2 Central Committee of the CPSU On the meeting of anti-social elements on Pushkin Square in Moscow.
		__________________________________________ On December 5 a group of anti-social elements gathered on Pushkin Square with the provocative purpose of making a "silent protest" against the "violation" of civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the USSR.
		At the square near the Pushkin monument the following people were present: Sakharov, Semenova (Bonner's daughter), Yankelevich (Semenova's husband), Salova, Shatunovskaya, Ioffe, Lunts, Genkin, Podyapolsky, Christi, Irina Yakir, Grigorenko, Tatiana Litvinova, and others, about 30 people in all.
	www.yale.edu /annals/sakharov/sakharov_english_txt/e107.txt (163 words)

	Johnson's Russia List #5384 - August 8, 2001
		Pushkin square, Muscovites admit to persistent fears of further outrages as
		Pushkin Square, the place has the feel of an empty gray cement basement.
		The Pushkin Square bombing is one of the most high-profile cases in the
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5384.html (7694 words)

	McDonalds Becoming Largest Corporate Land Owner in Russia
		The Pushkin Square restaurant is important as well because it is the jewel in a growing real estate empire that ranks McDonald's among the largest corporate landowners in Russia.
		Real estate analysts and industry experts here conservatively value McDonald's 127 Russian restaurants, plus its land, storage warehouses and distribution centers at $115 million, although that figure could be much higher if the company succeeds in selling the office towers and leasing back the space for its own use.
		Some even argue that McDonald's is identified in the public mind with glasnost and perestroika, the policies of openness and restructuring under Mikhail S. Gorbachev in the final years of the Soviet Union.
	www.organicconsumers.org /Politics/russia32205.cfm (1199 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Kasparov arrested in Moscow, now freed
		Police have arrested Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov at a banned anti-Kremlin rally in central Moscow.He was detained during a huge security operation to prevent opponents of President Putin gathering at Pushkin Square.
		"Knowing that a rally on Pushkin Square was banned, he came to the square surrounded by his supporters and started to provoke policemen into taking tough measures.
		Thousands of police, many of them in helmets and wielding nightsticks, were at the square and scores of people were detained.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=3790 (692 words)

	RUSSIA MEDIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		By the standards set during anti-government protests of the past, this was a small rally.
		The most disturbing event was last week's raid by heavily armed and masked police on the headquarters of the country's largest independent media company, Media-Most.
		After that, Russia's Union of Journalists decided it was time to revive the Pushkin Square rallies.
	www.fas.org /news/russia/2000/000518-rus1.htm (644 words)

	Pravda.RU Memorial Wall to victims of explosion in Moscow to be unveiled on August 8th
		On the 40th day after the August 8 blast in the Pushkin Square underpass a plaque was opened in commemoration of its victims.
		On Thursday a Wall of Memory was opened in a ceremony held in the underpass of Moscow's Pushkin Square where exactly two years ago an explosion went off killing 13 people and wounding about 100.
		Two hundred and twenty years ago, on August 7, 1782, an equestrian monument to Peter the Great was unveiled at a ceremony on Senate Square in St Petersburg in the presence of the reigning empress, Catherine II, her court and the general public.
	newsfromrussia.com /society/2002/08/08/34051.html (2202 words)

	Godzillas Hostel Location
		It is within easy walk of Pushkin Square (7 minutes) and all the central Moscow sites.
		Pushkin Square is active 24 hours a day with bars, restaurants and shops.
		It is also a great place to hang out and watch the world go by.
	www.godzillashostel.com /godzillashostellocation.php (156 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A memorial plaque will be put up in the underground passage on Pushkin square on the 40th day after the tragic event August 8th.
		This was decided by the special group in charge of eliminating the aftermaths of the blast.
		At present about 60 persons are staying at the city hospitals; two of them in a very grave condition.
	www.russiananalitica.com /theysay/0800/014.shtml (82 words)

	Pushkin (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vasiliy Pushkin - lesser-known poet, Aleksandr Pushkin's uncle
		General Pushkin, the head of the KGB in the film The Living Daylights
		Pushkin Private School - Russian private school in Thornhill, Ontario
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pushkin_(disambiguation) (126 words)

	Russia
		It sparked fourteen years of negotiations, and culminated in the opening of the first McDonald's in Russia.
		When McDonald's Pushkin Square restaurant opened on January 31, 1990 it broke McDonald's world wide opening day records for customers served.
		To this day, 12 years later, Pushkin continues to be the busiest McDonald's restaurant in the world.
	www.mcdonalds.com /countries/russia.html (192 words)

	Russia Travel Forums - View topic - McDonalds in Pushkin Square?
		It is situated from Red Square in 15 minutes by feet.
		Always crowded, and on Pushkin Square is a popular place for demonstrations/rallies/protests and what-have-you.
		We were drinking beer and eating corn on the cob near Red Square earlier.
	www.waytorussia.net /TalkLounge/conversation5735.html (1298 words)

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