In Odessa, a monument to Pushkin’s shadows was opened, laying the poet on the sidewalk. Expressing the protest against this outrageous action, we hasten to remind you that ...

The great -grandson of Ethiop Abraham, who has become the sun of Russian poetry, read and read in Israel. All the dates associated with a particular event in his life are noted here. A few years ago, on Tel Avivskaya Street, Ben-Jehuda Street was arranged on the occasion of the birthday of a descendant of the glorious people of Falash-for this, the Ethiopian restaurant "Indjara" was temporarily renamed the Pushkin restaurant, and the bar was decorated with the bust of our everything, cast from metal. Nearby hung a portrait of Pushkin Efiop, who leaves no doubt about the kinship with the Arap of Peter the Great.

Immediately read the poem by Pushkin in the Amhar. Having lost a singing speech, those present were convinced: the Amhar language is Semitic. Both the idle and crafty. It is possible that the sinful. True, the curly “dark -skinned lad” did not create in Amhar - it so happened. Although his poems sound in this language quite, quite.

Living in a foggy far from the historical homeland, in the soul the poet remained faithful to the call of the blood of Ethiopian ancestors. It is not surprising that one of the streets of Addis Abiba is named after him, not to mention the monuments - there are two of them on the ancestral home of Pushkin. Ethiopian schoolchildren study the Pushkin heritage in translations of the best Ethiopian poets. And what? Pushkin - he is in Africa Pushkin. Moreover: both Cameroon and the Republic of Chad, and another African state, Eritrea, who proclaimed independence from Ethiopia, claimed for the proud title of the poet’s homeland, and the Republic of Chad. According to one version, the great-grandfather of the Russian genius Ibrahim Abram-Avaram Hannibal comes from Eritrea (again the former Abyssinia). That is why its inhabitants intend to open the museum Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin in their country. And they also erected a monument to him - according to rumors, still man -made. It is possible that soon Pushkin’s poems will be transferred to Tigrino ...

In the meantime, we are pleased with the translations of Pushkin’s poetry and prose to Hebrew - since they correspond to the scale of the talent of the “bitch of the son” of Alexander Sergeyevich. The novel in the verses “Eugene Onegin” was especially successful, and of the five existing versions the best option was and remains the translation of Abraham Shlensky (we prefer it).

It is known that Pushkin himself in his youth taught Hebrew, and in his notebook several pages are dotted with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The folklorist and archaeographer Petr Vasilievich Kireevsky, in a letter to the poet Nikolai Yazykov, remarked: "Pushkin learns in Hebrew with the intention of translating Job." It did not work out with IOV, but in 1826 Pushkin wrote the poem “Prophet”, based on the biblical book of Isaiah. A year later, at the evening at Ksenophon Polevoi, Alexander Sergeyevich shared his plan on the topic of the “eternal Jew”: about how the latter visited the Jewish dwelling in which the child died, said that he saw Jesus, who was carrying the cross, and mocked him. So the poem "In the Jewish Him of the Lamp" appeared. During the life of Pushkin, it was not printed - like the unfinished poem "Judith". Curiously, even in Gavriliad there are lines: “In the wilderness, in Dali Yerusalim ...” However, why go far if the poet’s muse was dressed in an Israeli dress?

Here is the muse, frisky talkers,

Which you loved so much.

My holuya repented,

The court tone captured her;

Her Almighty dawned on her

With its heavenly grace -

She will take it to the spiritual

Dangerous sacrifices the game.

Do not be surprised, my dear,

Her Israeli dress, -

Forgive her the former sins

And under the cherished seal

Accept dangerous verses.

In general, the great poet showed a lively interest to the Earth - and dreamed of visiting the holy places. What was recognized, for example, to the Decembrist Alexander Muravyov, who visited Palestine in 1830 and published his “journey through holy places”. He presented this work to Pushkin, who, in a response letter, noticed that "he read this book with tenderness and involuntary envy."

And finally - the Pushkin "poems for the ladies":

Christ is risen, my reverence,

Following the soul today

The law of God-man,

I kiss you, my angel.

And tomorrow to the faith of Moses

I am not a shirt for a kiss

Ready, Jewish, to begin -

And even then hand

How can a faithful Jew

Distinguish from the Orthodox.

Like this. And it is no coincidence that one of the streets in South Tel Aviv is named after Pushkin.

Titular illustration: Alexander Roitburd