Elena Monakhova personal open lecture: «The poet house in the Moika Embankment historical and cultural space»

On Wednesday, April 5, at 2 pm  in the Green Hall of Russian Institute for Art History, Elena Nikolaevna Monakhova (IRLI RAS, Pushkin House) within the framework of the “Problems and Methods of Art Study” seminar will present her personal open lecture: «The poet house in the Moika Embankment historical and cultural space».

Exactly a hundred years before the death of Pushkin in the house on the Moika river, all the space, from Potseluev bridge to the Field of Mars, were completely burned out! The famous fires of 1737-1738 were obliterated the half of the City of St.Petersburg, the entire district Admiralty, which were consisted of wooden buildings. And after that, stone construction has begun on its banks, the embankment were faced with granite. On the banks of the Moika many famous people had been died, among which were seven emperors (!), Lomonosov, Esenin, architects Leblon and Montferrand, Gnedich – the Homer translator, Dmitry Venevitinov. The Volyn yard, which famous for the fact the conspirators had been gathered there against Biron and whom were captured, tortured and executed later, open to the Moika embankment as well. Eropkin – the ingenious architect, the author of the plan for the center of St. Petersburg was among the conspirators. The Decembrist conspirators spent the night before their defeat at Rileyev’s apartment, where he was arrested the next morning. And in the house of the Eliseevs on the corner of Nevsky near the Green Bridge in 1921 Nikolai Gumilev was arrested and had been shoted later. On Dvortsovaya square, Uritsky was killed by the Kenegisser the poet, who was immediately seized, and the Red Terror began. In 1905, participants of peaceful demonstration rushed to the embankment, escaping from the shots on Dvortsovaya sq. In 1917, the Field of Mars has been turned into a cemetery with a very sinister reputation – this is what Ivan Bunin has been wrote in his “Cursed Days” …

And this is not the whole story …