Памятник «Москва — Петушки», Literary monument at Ploshchad Borby Square, Moscow, Russia.
The Moscow-Petushki monument is a bronze sculpture at Ploshchad Borby Square in Moscow, featuring a man holding a Moscow sign and suitcase alongside a woman with a long braid. The granite pedestal carries inscriptions from the literary work, capturing key moments from the traveler's story.
The monument was unveiled in 2000, a decade after writer Venedikt Yerofeyev's death, whose prose poem formed the basis for this sculpture. It grew from an earlier plaster version that stood elsewhere before being cast in bronze and placed here.
The monument connects to Yerofeyev's celebrated prose poem about a train journey, which holds special meaning in Russian literature. The inscriptions on the base convey the character's inner world and feelings directly to visitors.
The site sits on a central Moscow square and is easy to reach on foot, with surroundings full of details and quotations worth taking time to read. The inscriptions are best deciphered in daylight and dry conditions.
The sculpture was originally created as a plaster model at Kursk Railway Station, a busy hub full of travelers and motion that directly echoed the literary source material's themes. This initial location held symbolic weight before the artwork migrated to its current home.
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