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On May 25, an educational tour of Pushkin’s places in Moscow took place, dedicated to the 225th anniversary of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Foreign students, under the guidance of a lecturer from the Department of the Russian Language (as a Foreign Language) at the Institute of International Education, visited the historical center of Moscow, which keeps the memory of the greatest Russian poet. We learned that A.S. Pushkin often visited the house in Gagarinsky Lane which belonged to P.V. Nashchokin, a close friend of the poet. Then at the State Museum named after A.S. Pushkin students were able to see a reproduction of the most famous portrait of the poet by V.A. Tropinin and find out why this particular portrait is considered to be the best. In Starokonyushenny Lane, the group examined Porokhovshchikov’s wooden house with great interest. Students recollected the fairy tales by A.S. Pushkin, whose characters used to live in similar chambers.

The house in Arbat, where the poet lived with his young wife in the first months after their wedding, made a remarkable impression on the students. The students learned about their love story, a very brief family life, and in the Church of the Ascension of the Lord on Nikitskaya Street they listened to the story about the wedding of A.S. Pushkin and N. Goncharova in 1831. The beauty and severity of the architecture of the ancient church, the majestic walls and golden domes impressed the tourists greatly.

On Tverskoy Boulevard, foreign students learned about the history of the opening of the most famous monument to A.S. Pushkin, which is now one of the symbols of Moscow.

It is impossible to know and love Russia without being aware what A.S. Pushkin means to every Russian person. That is why it was so important for foreign students studying the Russian language in Moscow to get to know the great Russian poet better.