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Alexander Pushkin's Apartment Museum.(The Essentials)(Brief Article)

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On January 29, 1837, Alexander Pushkin, one of the fathers of modern Russian literature, died after being shot in a duel. For the last several months of his life, Pushkin lived in the apartment that is now the Alexander Pushkin's Apartment Museum (Moika River Embankment 12; metro: Nevsky Prospekt). An enormous Pushkin statue stands in front of the Russian Museum on Nevsky Prospekt.

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