On June 18, 1880, a significant event took place: the opening of the monument to Pushkin in Moscow, at the beginning of Tverskoy Boulevard.
Pushkin's festivities began with a solemn prayer service. And then it lasted for several days. Fyodor Mikhailovich's speech in the hall of the Moscow Noble Assembly was a real triumph.
Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of Russian culture. Dostoevsky's Pushkin speech is the fruit of his twenty—three years of thinking about the poet