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PUSHKYN STATE MUSEUM

This museum, honoring the greatest poet in Russian history, and one of the most significant figures in world literature, is most inspiring of collections, although it is well organized and labeled.  The displays take you through the stages of the poet's life, and the sheer quantity of Pushkin paraphernalia is remarkable, from miniature portraits of the poet to the medicine chest that was used by the doctor who treated his fatal injuries. With some of the exhibits, the connection to Pushkin himself is less than tenuous. There are some things that are well worth seeing, though particularly the poet's own charming line drawings, with which he often embellished the manuscripts to his verse, and the touching final hall, which contains everything connected to his tragic dual, including his death mask and the pen with which he wrote his last poem. There's a second part of the museum in a flat on the Arbat (No. 53), where Pushkin hosted the equivalent of a stag party, and briefly lived with his new bride, the treacherous Natalia Goncharova.

Emblema della Federazione Russa

L' Aquila Bicipite rappresenta dopo la caduta del comunismo il nuovo simbolo di Stato della Russia. Le due teste sono a simboleggiare i due orizzonti verso i quali la Russia guarda ossia l' Ovest e l' Est, mentre le tre corone stanno a simboleggiare l'amicizia che unisce da secoli i popoli dell'Ucraina. Bielorussia e la Madre Russia. Lo scettro simboleggia che la Russia è uno Stato sovrano mentre la palla sta a indicare la potenza e l'unità e nel centro vi è San Girogio che sta ad indicare che Mosca è il cuore della Russia, il colore argento invece viene visto come simbolo dell'eternità.