In the footsteps of Pushkin

In the footsteps of Pushkin
The developed tour will allow you to get acquainted with the surrounding world, which influenced the writer A. S. Pushkin in the process of writing a historical essay about Yemelyan Pugachev and a novel from the era of the Pugachev uprising, the epicenter of which was Orenburg region.

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The developed tour will allow you to get acquainted with the surrounding world, which influenced the creative personality of the writer A. S. Pushkin in the process of writing a historical essay about Yemelyan Pugachev and a novel from the era of the Pugachev uprising, the epicenter of which was Orenburg region. During the audio tour, participants will follow Alexander Sergeevich's route through the historical part of Orenburg, in the audio recording the announcer will tell the group about this memorable visit for the Orenburg region and help the tourists to look at Orenburg through the eyes of the great Russian poet. The audio tour is interactive in nature, which involves the participation of tourists in discussing their proposed issues and working with visual aids "Pushkin's places", an element of the role–playing game is conducting an excursion on behalf of V. I. Dahl.
The monument to A. S. Pushkin and V. I. Dahl is located in the city center, at the intersection of Krasnoznamennaya and Sovetskaya streets, in a small park named after Polina Osipenko. It was opened in the late summer of 1998 and is dedicated to A. S. Pushkin and V. I. Dahl, namely the poet's arrival in Orenburg. The author of the sculpture to Pushkin and Dahl was the artist N. G. Petina, and the architect was S. E. Smirnov. The sculpture of the poet and clerical official was cast in bronze in the city of Kazan. The sculptural composition, about two meters high, depicts a poet and a lexicographer engaged in conversation during their walk. During Alexander Sergeevich's visit to the city of Orenburg, a church named after him was located at this place. Saints Peter and Paul, which Pushkin visited (during the tour, the lost monument of history and culture will be presented in the form of a photo card).
Gostiny Dvor is a unique architectural monument of the 18th and 19th centuries, which served as a place for winter trade between Asian and European countries. Currently, a shopping complex is located here, the address of which is Kirova St., 13.
The Timashev House is the building where the Orenburg military governor Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky lived, whom Pushkin knew and met during his visit to the city (currently address: Sovetskaya St., 32).
The Neplyuyevsky Military College is an educational institution named after the first governor of the Orenburg province, Ivan Ivanovich Neplyuyev, whose purpose was to educate noble children and train specialists from the indigenous inhabitants of the region necessary for local authorities. At the time of Pushkin's visit to the city, the college was located in a building that now has the address Leninskaya St., 25 and houses the Orenburg Regional Medical College.
The P. I. Rychkov House is a building on Sovetskaya St., 4, in which in the 50s of the 18th century lived a researcher of the Orenburg region, geographer, economist, historian, naturalist, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Peter Ivanovich Rychkov, the same one whose works on the history of Orenburg region and the city Pushkin used, creating the "History of the Pugachev rebellion"and "The Captain's daughter".
The embankment of the Ural River, from the high bank of which, during a joint walk around the city, Pushkin and Dahl admired the Trans–Ural Grove and the views of the large shopping facility of Orenburg, the Exchange Yard (located two kilometers from the city).
The guardhouse is one of the buildings where Pushkin has never been, but it is inextricably linked with his name and is one of the most original architectural monuments of Orenburg. Now the Orenburg History Museum is located here (29 Embankment Street). One of the permanent exhibitions of the museum is called "A. S. Pushkin in the Orenburg Province" and is dedicated to the poet's stay in our city, his journey through the Orenburg province. There is a monument to Pushkin in front of the museum entrance. The opening of the monument to Pushkin on the embankment of the Urals in Orenburg took place in October 1982 and was timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the poet's stay in Orenburg region. The sculpture was made by sculptor V. S. Stepanyan from bronze and concrete.