In Kharkiv, a monument to Russian classics was poured "blood" (photo)

The published photo shows that the pedestal on which Pushkin's busts rises, covered with paint in blood. It was the bust of the poet that remained unharmed. Perhaps because it is placed quite high. We will add that the National Police of Ukraine to the incident with the monument Alexander Pushkin has not reacted and did not make official statements. Alexander Pushkin's bronze bust is one of Kharkiv's oldest monuments. It is installed on the poetry square from the side of Pushkinskaya Street.

In 1899, during a celebration in the Russian Empire, Alexander Pushkin's 100th anniversary, in Kharkiv, Germany Street was renamed in honor of the Russian poet, and the city community decided to build a monument. The idea was embodied by Russian sculptor Boris Edwards, and Pushkin's bust was opened on May 26, 1904. By the way, at first Bronze Pushkin had to appear on Sergiyevskaya Square, but from the capital of the empire came an instruction to build a monument in the heart of Kharkiv.

However, the monument for a long time stood. On the night of October 31, 1904, the participants of the underground organization "Defense of Ukraine" undermined the monument to the Russian writer. It was the bust that was not injured at the time. The explosion damaged only the pedestal. Pushkin's bust did not affect the decommunization, which began in 2014 after the victory of the Revolution of Dignity. However, in July 2022 an electronic petition appeared on the website of the President of Ukraine.

Its initiator, Anastasia Zakharova, asks Vladimir Zelensky to allow the demolition of all Pushkin monuments in Ukraine. Zakharov argues his initiative by the fact that Pushkin is a component of the cultural heritage of the aggressor country. In addition, the writer did not recognize Ukraine as a separate state, calling it "Little Russia" and blamed in his works the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa. As of September 26, the petition gained 210 votes of 25,000 required.

In addition, in August, a public initiative representative Irina Goncharov demanded to dismantle Pushkin's bust. Instead of a monument to the Russian poet, Goncharov suggested erect a monument in honor of Ukrainian writers: Jacob Shchogolov or Vasyl Stus. For their part, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine reminded that Pushkin's bust in Kharkiv is in the register of monuments of national importance. Therefore, his fate should be decided by the authorities, not public activists.

We will remind, in Kiev they want to put a monument to the dead Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II, according to the author of the petition, should replace the Soviet Commander Nicholas Shchors, whose monument has been standing near the railway station in the capital since 1954. Focus also wrote that in the Slavic monument to Lenin was sold for 700 thousand UAH. According to Mayor Vadim Liakh, the received funds will go to pay for people for destroyed housing during the war.