The Russian Academy Of Arts

Photo: the Presidential Press and Information Office

On May 28, 2014 in Moscow there was an unveiling ceremony for the monument to the celebrated poet Sergey Mikhalkov attended by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky, the Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, members of the Mikhalkov family. The monument designed by the Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Alexander Rukavishnikov has found its home in Povarskaya street where Sergey Milhalkov lived for many years.

“Sergey Mikhalkov has been a distinguished and remarkable man, a true and devoted patriot of our great country. His public activity and his unique creative work are an integral part of Russian history and culture. The most important in his life was his service to the Motherland. He is an author of two Russian national anthems” – said Vladimir Putin. “Sergey Mikhalkov’s works are always of current importance like words of any great poet. The present and the past in his creative work are organically combined and this fact remains a secret of his poetry. Sergey Mikhalkov is a playwright, satirist, writer of fables, poet but his popularity as a children’s writer is really phenomenal. Hundreds of millions of his books for children have been published in different languages and are republished today. It is symbolic, that the monument to Sergey Mikhalkov is being unveiled on the eve of the International Day for Protection of Children” – noted the Russian President.

The members of the poet’s family, his sons Andrey Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov, his widow Yulia Subbotina highly appreciated the talented work by the sculptor Alexander Rukavishnikov who had created the sculpture on a photograph. The poet is depicted sitting on a bench with his write hand resting on a cane and the left one – on the back of the bench installed on a granite base. Near the monument stands a sculpture of a small girl looking at the writer with flowers in her hands.





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