BIRD’S EYE VIEW AT PUSHKIN MONUMENTS
The article presents the research of numerous online data regarding a monument to Pushkin as a fact in the world cultural space. The writer investigates such issues as specific conceptualization of “the Russian genius” with regard to both global and ethnic cultural traditions, semiotic significance of various Pushkin monuments, the viewers’ attraction to plastic language of sculpture, “failures” that capture stereotyping, and the “disclosures” associated with semantic shifts that create aesthetic effect. In the spotlight, there is the semantic load carried by details and motifs (a book, a quill pen, a pair of gloves, a bench), their origin, historical and cultural meaning.