We’re slowly watching Parfenov’s series about Pushkin from 1999, where Parfenov mentions that Gabriadze planned to erect a monument to a rabbit that crossed the road in front of Pushkin in Petersburg to join the Decembrists, thereby saving his life (Pushkin took it as a bad sign and turned back). The monument was unveiled in December 2000 and features a milestone stating “416 versts to Senate Square” with a figure of a rabbit sitting on it. A Google search shows that there are only two photos of this monument on the internet. That’s it. Why might that be? Can you find a third one? How can it be that in 21 years not a single new photo has appeared? It is, after all, a landmark. Is the monument still standing? If not, why are there no reports about it? Where was it located? If there are 416 versts to Senate Square, it should be 443 km from Senate Square, but how can this be if Pushkin’s house-museum in Mikhailovskoe is only 400 km from the square? No use asking Rezo Gabriadze, he passed away a month and a half ago… And Andrey Bitov, co-author of the idea, died in December 2018.
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