A.S. Pushkin Museum-Reserve "Mikhailovskoye" in the Pskov Region

USSR. Pskov Region. A plaque with an excerpt from the poem by Russian poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin "To Yazykov", written in Mikhailovskoye in 1824: "In the village where Peter's pet, The beloved slave of tsars and tsarinas And their forgotten housemate, My great-grandfather the Moor was hiding, Where, having forgotten Elizabeth And the courtyard, and the magnificent vows, Under the shade of linden alleys He thought in his cool years Of his distant Africa" at the house-museum of Pyotr Abramovich and Veniamin Petrovich Gannibal, relatives of A.S. Pushkin, in the "Petrovskoye" estate on the territory of the A.S. Pushkin State Museum-Reserve "Mikhailovskoye". Alexander Ovchinnikov, Valery Khudyakov/TASS