On June 6 (May 26 according to the old style), the great Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born.

Alexander Sergeyevich is very closely connected with the Summer Garden. When Pushkin rented apartments near the Summer Garden, he visited him regularly. However, during this period there were no other gardens open to the public. Therefore, the famous phrase: “And I drove to the Summer Garden for a walk” was different and could not sound.

Pushkin calls the Summer Garden “his garden”, making references to Peter the Great, whose archives he examined during this period. Where (to the Summer Garden) Alexander Sergeevich allegedly went “in a dressing gown and shoes”, which is not true. All this speaks of Pushkin’s close, almost perverse relationship with the Summer Garden.

In the 60s of the 20th century, the opinion arises that the Summer Garden of the 1960s is similar to the garden of Pushkin’s time, and this opinion still exists. Although it arose in 1960 after the release of the movie The Queen of Spades, the shooting of the initial scene of the film takes place in the Summer Garden of 1959. Then the film crew did not begin to recreate the entourage of the Summer Garden of the 19th century, but did the shooting on the existing nature. So myths are born.

But today is not about that. Today is a holiday of all Russian-speaking poets.

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