• FYI, I thought the statue of Alexander Pushkin was also built with the help/funding of mother Russia?
  • Both Eritrea and Ethiopia have claimed the poet as their own, each erecting a statue of Pushkin in their respective capitals.
  • This is also why the Russian government stated he is of Eritrean in ancestry and built a statue of Pushkin and a museum of Abraham in Asmara, Eritrea.
  • The statue of Pushkin in the capital. Do visit one of many colonial Italian Cinemas around the city which are now used to screen English Football during the weekends.
  • Myself and Mehritab then continued the tour of Asmara. The Art Déco styled (and currently dry) Mai Jah Jah Fountain. A statue of Alexander Pushkin...
  • On 28 November 2009, a Pushkin Monument was erected in Asmara, capital of Eritrea.[53].
  • There’s a fine statue of Pushkin, with his dark curly hair, in Memorial Park.Russian and Eritrean dignitaries opened it with aplomb, forging close cultural ties.
  • ...maternal great grandfather Abraham Hannibal, and this fact is now confirmed by erecting a bronze statue. ... Inauguration of Pushkin’s monument - Asmara Eritrea.
  • Asmara, Eritrea: Alexander Pushkin square - garden at the intersection of Mata Street and Felket Avenue (Via Giuseppe Giulietti and Viale Conte di Cavour)...