Disappeared Pushkin

‘Vilnius in the Year of War 1916’.

When the Russians abandoned Vilnius in September 1915, they removed the bronze monuments of Catherine the Great, Governor-General Mikhail Muravyov and the poet Alexander Pushkin from their plinths and took them away. The Germans interpreted this as a sign of the Russian authorities relinquishing the city. In Buhe’s drawing, the garden at the foot of Gediminas Hill is shown with a bare pedestal, and no bust of Pushkin; and the visitors to the garden do not miss the absent monument.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA II (2015). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė
Expositions: ‘Vilnius Forever. A Dialogue of Artworks and Guides to the City’, 25 May 2022 – 30 April 2023 Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE (Užupio St. 40, Vilnius). Curator Laima Laučkaitė.

‘Vilnius in the Year of War 1916’.

When the Russians abandoned Vilnius in September 1915, they removed the bronze monuments of Catherine the Great, Governor-General Mikhail Muravyov and the poet Alexander Pushkin from their plinths and took them away. The Germans interpreted this as a sign of the Russian authorities relinquishing the city. In Buhe’s drawing, the garden at the foot of Gediminas Hill is shown with a bare pedestal, and no bust of Pushkin; and the visitors to the garden do not miss the absent monument.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA II (2015). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė
Expositions: ‘Vilnius Forever. A Dialogue of Artworks and Guides to the City’, 25 May 2022 – 30 April 2023 Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE (Užupio St. 40, Vilnius). Curator Laima Laučkaitė.