Alexander Pushkin's birthday was celebrated in Tiraspol

The 225th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin was marked June 6. The most famous Russian poet, who during his lifetime was called the sun of Russian poetry, was equally fluent in French and Russian, but he wrote in Russian. He even introduced such familiar words as “mechanically”, “vulgar” and “galoshes” into use today.

It is generally accepted that Alexander Pushkin created the modern literary Russian language. Pushkin did not change language in fact in the usual sense of the word, he changed its form. He threw away all the “heaviness” of the works of that time and showed that the Russian language can be sonorous and laconic, the way we are used to seeing it now.

Flowers were laid at the monument to Pushkin in the park near the Central City Library in memory of the genius of Russian literature by parliamentarian Ilona Tyuryaeva and Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Galina Antyufeyeva.

The monument to Alexander Pushkin is in the very center of the capital, in the park near the city library, from 1990. Its authors were two famous sculptors – Vyacheslav Klykov and Alexander Narolsky. Those who grew up on fairy tales and love lyrics of Alexander Pushkin, and those who have yet to learn about Tatyana’s tender feelings for Eugene Onegin, gather with him every year.

There are fresh flowers at the monument every year on June 6. MODERN Pushkins are along with them in recent years. They recite poems and ask them to quote their memorable few lines from any classic work. There was quad bike travelling around the capital with two Alexander Sergeevichs after taking a souvenir photo with their eminent namesake this year.