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St. Petersburg, a Pushkin haunt Poet attracts a modern cult following

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20050921
Author:David Laskin

David Laskin
International Herald Tribune
09-21-2005
Just inside the entrance of the elegant Literary Cafe on St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospekt, Alexander Pushkin sits alone at a table by the window. Upstairs in the dining room, china tea cups clink and a Mozart sonata purls, but Pushkin is not listening. Dressed to the nines and staring fixedly into space, the poet at least his wax effigy broods upon love's bitter mystery and the sweet closure of revenge.As every Russian old enough to read well knows, this artful mannequin, complete with luxuriant black curls and full romantic sideburns, ...

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