Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Monument is located on the square in front of the Arts State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. The monument was erected in June 1957. The authors were Michael K. Anikushin sculptor and architect Vasily A. Petrov. Sculpture of the great poet was opened to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the city of Leningrad.

The monument was made of bronze in the local factory "Monumentskulptura." The height is more than 4 meters, with a pedestal - about 8 meters. The pedestal was carved from granite reddish color, which produced at Kar-Lahti near Leningrad. The base is made of wrought granite. Gold carved inscription: "Alexander Pushkin" can be seen on the front side of the pedestal. Thanks to the pedestal of impressive dimensions, by which the figure of Alexander rises above the earth, sculpture perfectly fit into the ensemble of the square, which was designed in the classic style of architect Carlo Rossi.

The image of the Pushkin created Anikushin different elevation and romance. The face of the poet illuminates the creative inspiration. For its characteristic shape plasticity and clarity of the silhouette. Alexander is depicted in motion, it tends to advance, and that a feeling of rush impressively emphasizes lean back right hand.

The history of the sculpture dates back to 1936, when the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, it was decided on the need to erect a monument to the 100th anniversary of the death of the poet. A year later, in 1937, it was organized by the All-Union competition for the best project of the monument. Initially it was supposed to be installed on Exchange Square Vasilyevsky Island. Area decided to rename the Pushkin. In a solemn ceremony of the monument was laid. But, despite this, none of the contestants was unable to provide a worthy project, and finally a monument on Vasilyevsky Island appeared.

After World War II in 1947 again was declared the All-Union competition for the best project of the monument to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin in Leningrad. The first three rounds were unable to identify the winner. Sculptor Lev Davidovich Muravin and architect Joseph Yul'evich Karakis were awarded the second prize. At the IV open competition round of the competition in 1949, he presented his sketch of a young 32-uhletny sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, recently graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. As a result, his work was approved by the Commission. Ceremonial laying of the monument was made in 1949, the 150-year birthday of the great Russian poet.

During the work on the final version of the monument to Michael K. has created a large number of graphic and sculptural portraits of the poet and, in addition, figure compositions AS Pushkin to Moscow University (1953) and for the station "Pushkinskaya" metro Leningrad (1955). In 1958, the artist Boris Johanson wrote that beautiful monument adorns the Leningrad area of ​​Arts, was created Anikushin already after the state commission adopted the previously executed model of the monument to the poet. However, Michael K. was convinced that this sculpture is perfect enough, and so they had decided on their own resources to create a new, deeper and more complete version of the monument to Pushkin.

In 1958, for the monument to Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Anikushin was awarded the Lenin Prize, is one of the highest forms of encouraging citizens major achievements in the field of literature, science, art, etc.