Editing Alexander Pushkin (section)

===Soviet centennial celebrations===
In the centennial year of Pushkin's death in 1937, a mass renaming of streets across the entire [[Soviet Union]] occurred in his honour.<ref name="7473415pushkin"/> Prior to 2022, Pushkin was the third most common historical figure represented in Ukraine’s streets; however, [[Demolition of monuments to Alexander Pushkin in Ukraine|his monuments]] were removed and streets bearing his name were renamed following the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref name="7473415pushkin">{{Cite web|title=Pushkin must fall: monuments to Russia's national poet under threat in Ukraine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/05/monuments-to-russia-national-poet-pushkin-under-threat-in-ukraine|date=5 May 2023|access-date=5 September 2024|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=English}}</ref><ref name="Pushkin7379110"><br/>{{cite web |author=|title=Bandera Street appeared in the liberated Izium|url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/12/3/7379110/|website=[[Ukrainska Pravda]] |date=3 December 2022|access-date=3 December 2022|language=Ukrainian}}<br/>{{cite web |author=Lyudmyla Martinova|title=Kyiv renamed Pushkinska Street to Chikalenka, Nekrasivska to Dracha|url=https://ukranews.com/ua/news/890959-kyyiv-perejmenuvav-vulytsyu-pushkinsku-na-chykalenka-nekrasivsku-na-dracha|website=[[Ukrainian News Agency]] |date=28 October 2022|access-date=3 December 2022|language=Ukrainian}}<br/>{{cite web |author=|title=Monuments to Pushkin, Lomonosov, and Gorky will be removed from public space in Dnipro - city council|url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/12/6/7379537/|website=[[Ukrainska Pravda]]|date=6 December 2022|access-date=6 December 2022|language=Ukrainian}}<br/>{{Cite web|title=Poltava decided to demolish monuments to two Soviet generals and Pushkin|url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2023/04/7/7396940/|website=[[Ukrainska Pravda]]|date=7 April 2023|accessdate=14 April 2023|language=Ukrainian}}</ref> These monuments, along with any [[toponymy]] named after him, are now illegal in [[Ukraine]] following the implementation of [[On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy|a law that bans symbols]] "dedicated to persons who publicly, including … in literary and other artistic works, supported, glorified, or justified [[Russian imperialism|Russian imperial]] policy".<ref name="7473415pushkin"/>

The centennial of Pushkin's death in 1937 was one of the most significant literary commemorations of the Soviet era, second only to the 1928 centennial of [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s birth. Although Pushkin's image was prominently displayed in Soviet propaganda, from billboards to candy wrappers, it conflicted with the ideal Soviet persona. Pushkin was reputed as a [[libertine]] with aristocratic tendencies, which clashed with Soviet values and led to a form of repressive revisionism, akin to the Stalinist reworking of Tolstoy's [[Christian anarchism]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Morrison |first=Simon |title=Sergey Prokofiev and His World |publisher=Princeton University Press |date=2008 |page=60}}</ref>