Many admirers of Russian poetry do not know where the genius of world literature A. S. Pushkin is buried. Pushkin's grave is located in the Svyatogorsk monastery-museum, included in the Pushkin Reserve. The poet himself often visited the walls of the ancient monastery, talking with the layman and pilgrims, writing down folk chants, poems, dialects.
Death of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Pushkin was killed in a duel on January 29, or February 10, old style, in 1837. Officially, the time and place of the writer's funeral were announced at the very last moment: Alexander Sergeevich's friends remembered that during his lifetime he expressed a desire to be buried in the Pskov province.
The body was seen off under strict supervision, but without great honors: the tsarist authorities were afraid of holding public demonstrations. The coffin of the poet was taken out of St. Petersburg, accompanied by a gendarme officer and secretly. Only his close friend A. I. Turgenev managed to see Pushkin on his last journey. An entry dated February 2 was later found in his diaries, where it is said that he was appointed as an escort for a deceased friend. However, he did not know the direction and final destination of the "procession". About the destination Turgenevreported only a few hours before departure. He wrote to his sister that on February 2 he left the stable monastery, he had to sit in a wagon with a postman, slightly behind the body, while the captain of the gendarmes sat in front. The friend of the murdered man also tells in this letter that Pushkin's uncle accompanied him on his last journey with great difficulty, standing on the tracks and following the coffin to the very grave. The poet's friend did not lie, the poet's uncle Nikita Kozlov was sincerely shocked by what had happened and did not want to let his nephew go so easily.
There were also plenty of tears and grief in Mikhailovsky itself, because just a few months ago, in April 1836, the funeral of Pushkin's mother N. O. Pushkina took place here. Alexander Sergeevich immediately bought himself a place next to his mother's grave.
In memory of the great poet
The poet was buried near Mikhailovsky. It was a frosty February morning, and Pushkin's grave was almost bare, with only a wooden cross. Only a few years later his wife, Natalya Nikolaevna, erected a marble obelisk here. The monument was erected on the grave in 1840. Most likely, in the same year, a crypt was built, where the remains of Pushkin and his mother are kept. Pushkin's grave still remains modest and not too pretentious. The austere monument on three granite slabs has an arched niche where a marble urn stands. Crossed torches are visible above the niche, above is a laurel wreath.
A posthumous inscription is carved on the obelisk, indicating the name, surname, patronymic and years of the poet's life.
The place where Pushkin's grave is located (its photo is presented in the article) is saturated with an atmosphere of solemnity and lyricism. Admirers of Pushkin's immortal talent flock here from all over the world to honor the memory of the famous Russian writer and poet. But to a special extent, this awe and reverence can be felt on the day of the All-Union Pushkin holiday, which is regularly held in the reserve.
