Head of pro-Russian project: Belarusian city of Mahiliou is a small town in Russia


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A monument to the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin has been erected in the Belarusian city of Mahiliou by Russian patriotic project ‘The Alley of Russia’s Glory’. The poem condemning the uprising of 1830-31 is an element of the monument.

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The November Uprising, or Polish–Russian War 1830–31, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw. They were soon joined by large segments of Polish society, and the insurrection spread to the territories of Lithuania, western Belarus, and the right-bank of the Ukraine. Despite some local successes, the uprising was eventually crushed by a numerically superior Imperial Russian Army.

 

“I had no intention to insult the feelings of Belarusians by choosing the  poem ‘To Slanderers of Russia’ for the monument to Pushkin we presented to Mahiliou. Pushkin wrote this poem against the common enemies of ours – Napoleon, Hitler [the latter was born in 1889 while Pushkin died in 1837 ]. At least, that’s my view of it. Perhaps the poem was written for another reason, I just did not know, this is our common problem – the lack of knowledge of history,” Mikhail Serdyukov, Head of the project ‘The Alley of Russia’s Glory’, told RFE/RL.

In addition, Serdyukov said he believed that Mahiliou ‘is a small town on the outskirts of Russia’.

The text on the bust of the Russian poet was approved by the local authorities of Mahiliou, the representatives of the initiative told Radio Liberty.

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