Incident in Poltava: bronze Pushkin was handed a volume with a poem by Kotlyarevsky
Users of social networks drew attention to the incident that occurred in Poltava with a monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, located near the local Palazzo hotel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Social network user Georgy Monakhov writes about this.
“The owners of the Poltava Palazzo Hotel commissioned Pushkin, cast in bronze, to hold the Aeneid in his hand. They, like the sculptor Vladimir Tsisarik, obviously do not know that:
— the author of “The Aeneid” was not Alexander Pushkin at all, but Ivan Kotlyarevsky;
“It is also impossible to assume that Pushkin was a passionate admirer of this Ukrainian-language (!) burlesque: the complete edition of “The Aeneid” was published in 1842, and Pushkin was shot in 1837,” he writes.
“At the first glance at the sculpture, one gets the impression that Pushkin is raising his top hat in greeting with one hand, and with the other he is somehow bashfully trying to hide the book behind his back, as if trying to hide all these inconsistencies from the eyes of his interlocutor...”, notes user Philip in the comments to Monakhov’s post Loshkar.
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