Editing Alexander Pushkin (section)

==Honours==
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[[File:Bolshiye Vyazyomy, Moskovskaya oblast', Russia - panoramio (27).jpg|thumb|Pushkin Museum, [[Bolshiye Vyazyomy]] in [[Golitsyno, Moscow Oblast|Golitsyno]], Moskovskaya oblast, which Pushkin visited several times in his youth]]
*Shortly after Pushkin's death, contemporary Russian romantic poet [[Mikhail Lermontov]] wrote "[[Death of the Poet]]". The poem, which ended with a passage blaming the aristocracy being (as oppressors of freedom) the true culprits in Pushkin's death,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.homeenglish.ru/ArticlesLermontov.htm |title=Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Biography |year=2005 |work=Home English |access-date=4 March 2011}} {{in lang|en}}</ref> was not published (nor could have been) but was informally circulated in St. Petersburg.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/HIS241/Notes/Lermontov.html |title=Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov (1814-1841) |author=C. T. Evans |year=2010 |work=Nova Online |access-date=4 March 2011}} {{in lang|en}}</ref> Lermontov was arrested and exiled to a regiment in the Caucasus.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rulex.ru/01120263.htm |title=Лермонтов Михаил Юрьевич |trans-title=Mikhail Lermontov |work=Russian Biographical Dictionary a|access-date=4 March 2011}} {{in lang|ru}}</ref>
*Montenegrin poet and ruler [[Petar II Petrović-Njegoš]] included in his 1846 poetry collection ''Ogledalo srpsko'' (The Serbian Mirror) a poetic ode to Pushkin, titled ''Sjeni Aleksandra Puškina''.
*In 1929, Soviet writer, Leonid Grossman, published a novel, ''The d'Archiac Papers'', telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel. The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime. In Poland the book was published under the title ''Death of the Poet''.
*In 1937, the town of [[Pushkin, Saint Petersburg|Tsarskoye Selo]] was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
*There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a [[Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve|large complex in Mikhaylovskoye]].
*Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film ''Pushkin: The Last Duel''. The film was directed by [[Natalya Bondarchuk]]. Pushkin was portrayed on screen by [[Sergei Bezrukov]].
*His life was dramatised in the 1951 Australian radio play ''[[The Golden Cockerel (radio play)|The Golden Cockerel]]''
* In 2000, the [[Statue of Alexander Pushkin (Washington, D.C.)]] was erected as part of a cultural exchange between the cities of Moscow and Washington. In return, a statue of the American poet [[Walt Whitman]] was erected in Moscow.
*The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the [[Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn|Duchess of Abercorn]] to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
*A minor planet, [[2208 Pushkin]], discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer [[Nikolai Chernykh]], is named after him.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Schmadel| first = Lutz D.| title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names| page = 179| edition = 5th | year = 2003| publisher=Springer Verlag| location = New York | isbn = 3-540-00238-3}}</ref> A [[List of craters on Mercury|crater on Mercury]] is also named in his honour.
[[File:RR5009-0012R 200-летие со дня рождения А.С. Пушкина.gif|thumb|180px|1999 Russian [[Russian ruble|1 rouble]] coin commemorating the 200th anniversary of Pushkin's birth]]
* [[MS Marco Polo#Service as Aleksandr Pushkin|MS ''Aleksandr Pushkin'']], second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as "poet" or "writer" class).
* A [[Pushkin (Tashkent Metro)|station of Tashkent metro]] was named in his honour.
* The Pushkin Hills<ref name="CGNDBHills">{{cite cgndb|id= FCIXD|title= Pushkin Hills|access-date= 25 May 2014}}</ref> and Pushkin Lake<ref name="CGNDBLake">{{cite cgndb|id= FCIXE|title= Pushkin Lake|access-date= 25 May 2014}}</ref> were named in his honour in [[Ben Nevis Township]], Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
* [[UN Russian Language Day]], established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wagner|first=Ashley|title=Celebrating Russian Language Day|url=http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/06/russian-language-day/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608214306/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/06/russian-language-day/|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 June 2013|access-date=30 December 2013|newspaper=Oxford Dictionaries|date=6 June 2013}}</ref>
* A statue of Pushkin was unveiled inside the [[Mehan Garden]] in Manila, Philippines to commemorate the [[Philippines–Russia relations]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite sign|title=Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AlexanderPushkinMonumentjf4497_02.JPG |location=Plaque on the pedestal of Pushkin's statue at the Mehan Garden, Manila |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927225601/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAlexanderPushkinMonumentjf4497_02.JPG |archive-date=27 September 2015 }}</ref>
* The [[Alexander Pushkin (diamond)|Alexander Pushkin diamond]], the second largest found in Russia (Russia was at the time part of the USSR), was named after him.
* On 28 November 2009, a Pushkin Monument was erected in [[Asmara]], capital of [[Eritrea]].<ref>{{cite news|script-title=ru:В Эритрее появится памятник Пушкину|url=http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=327939|work=Vesti|date=26 November 2009|access-date=23 April 2017|language=ru}}</ref>
* In 2005 a monument to Pushkin and his grandmother [[:ru:Ганнибал, Осип Абрамович|Maria Hannibal]] was commissioned by an enthusiast of Russian culture Just Rugel in Zakharovo, Russia. Sculptor V. Kozinin
*In 2019, Moscow's [[Sheremetyevo International Airport]] was named after Pushkin in accordance to the Great Names of Russia contest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/sheremetyevo-named-for-pushkin-in-national-airport-s-454162/|title=Sheremetyevo named for Pushkin in national airport scheme|last=Kaminski-Morrow|first=David|date=5 December 2018|website=Flightglobal.com|language=en-GB|access-date=26 July 2019}}</ref>