On the Neva Embankment.

On June 6th (26th of May o.s. date), 1799 Pushkin was born. 

 

 

Portrait of Alexander Pushkin on the Neva Embankment. Painted by Boris  Kustodief at 1915. Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.

 

I like it. It is not the so popular version of the poet, as we know it. Kustodief has done a fine job and we (those of us who have just pop accidentally/discovered him) need to explore further more on the painter.

 

“Alexander Pushkin's study”. Alexander Pushkin's table. The Hannibal-Pushkins' house in the Petrovskoye village. The Alexander Pushkin State Memorial History and Literature Museum and Nature Sanctuary "Mikhailovskoye."