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Monument to O. Mandelstam
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Photo: Monument, opened on 28 November 2008. Zabelina st. Courtyard houses, in which the poet was visiting his brother
Mandelstam (January 15 1891 – December 27, 1938) was a Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.
In November 1933, Mandelstam wrote a famous Stalin Epigram:
We live, but we do not feel the land beneath us,
Ten steps away and our words cannot be heard,
And when there are just enough people for half a dialogue,
Then they remember the Kremlin Highlander.
His fat fingers are slimy like slugs,
And his words are absolute, like grocers’ weights.
His cockroach whiskers are laughing,
And his boot tops shine.
And around him the rabble of narrow-necked chiefs –
He plays with the services of half-men.
Who warble, or miaow, or moan.
He alone pushes and prods.
Decree after decree he hammers them out like horseshoes,
In the groin, in the forehead, in the brows, or in the eye.
When he has an execution it’s a special treat,
And the Ossetian chest swells.
Six months later, Mandelstam was arrested.
Окт
5
Photo: Feodor Chaliapin monument on Novinsky Boulevard.
Feodor Ivanovich sunbathes in last sunbeam of an Indian summer. +18°С in Moscow. With such weather the monument to a great Russian bass most organically looks.
Июн
5
Overshoot the mark
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Photo: in Neskuchnyi Garden.
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13
Kamergersky lane.
Photo: Russian writer Anton Chekhov and honored Artist of Russia Mikhail Porechenkov
Chekhov: Michael, let me ride with you?
Porechenkov: I can’t, no second helmet.
Chekhov: Not at that time I lived…
Апр
12
We are the first for ever!
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Today Russia celebrate Day of astronautics!
On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 1 and return.
Monument to «Subjugators of space». It is opened on October, 4th, 1964. Height of 100 meters, weight of 250 tons, it is reveted by titanic panels thickness of 1.5 mm. In the basis the Memorial museum of astronautics is located.