Памятник «Москва — Петушки», Literary monument in the 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 plaster model of Venichka was first placed at Kursk Railway Station, but the station administration objected, so the bronze was given another site. The plaster figure of his beloved stood in Petushki before being moved to Moscow. Sculptors Valery Kuznetsov and Sergey Mantserev worked on the pair for two years.