And the people's path will be overgrown...

Last week, the Ministry of Culture of the Volgograd Region “gave birth” with an official response to the deputy request of the Communist Party faction in the regional Duma about the presence of monuments to A.S. Pushkin in our region. The answer, which cultural officials prepared for almost two months, was quite shocking (a copy is attached).

“In response to your request dated May 29, 2012 No. 16-24/3560, we inform you of the following.
The Ministry of Culture of the Volgograd Region has information about cultural heritage sites of federal and regional significance placed under state protection on the basis of:
- Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 20, 1995, No. 176;
- resolution of the Volgograd Regional Duma of June 5, 1997 No. 62/706.
In accordance with the above documents, in the lists of cultural heritage objects subject to state protection, there are no busts, monuments, sculptural compositions, etc., dedicated to the great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin,” the ministry’s letter says.

I wonder why monuments to Alexander Sergeevich are not among the objects protected by the state? Why is the creation dedicated to the Russian poet performed by the Volgograd sculptor, People's Artist Viktor Fetisov (pictured), which today is located on the bridgehead of the city, not included in the official “database”. Or the monument at the Kirov House of Culture in the Kirov region, which, by the way, was repaired after numerous requests to the local administration? And the bust of Pushkin in Volzhsky on Komsomolskaya Street?

According to cultural officials, citing Russian legislation, even these well-known monuments in the Volgograd region, apparently, should remain outside the boundaries of the “all-seeing sovereign eye.” With such approaches, in the near future the people's path to the remaining “unaccounted for” monuments of the great Russian poet will become overgrown.