Памятник «Москва — Петушки», Literary monument at Ploshchad Borby Square, Moscow, Russia.
The Moskva-Petushki monument is a bronze sculpture on Ploshchad Borby in Moscow, showing a man carrying a suitcase and a sign, next to a woman with a long braid. The granite pedestal is covered with inscriptions quoting Venedikt Yerofeyev's prose poem of the same name.
The monument was unveiled in 2000, roughly a decade after the death of writer Venedikt Yerofeyev, whose prose poem gave rise to the sculpture. Before reaching its current location, a plaster version of the work had stood at Kursk Railway Station.
The monument refers to a prose poem that almost every Russian reader knows, built around a train journey from Moscow to Petushki. The quotes carved into the base come directly from the text and give visitors a sense of the narrator's voice and inner world.
The monument stands on a central Moscow square and is easy to reach on foot from nearby metro stations. The inscriptions on the base are worth reading closely, and natural daylight makes them much easier to follow.
The original plaster version of the sculpture was placed at Kursk Railway Station, the very departure point for trains heading to Petushki in real life. This choice of location mirrored the opening of the prose poem, where the narrator sets off from that same station.
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