There's the statue!
Visitors who regularly follow the news items on this website know that the story about a statue for Mikhail Bulgakov in Moscow is a very long saga.
Many chapters of this saga were situated on the Patriarch Ponds - the famous place in Moscow where The Master and Margarita starts - but not all of them. About a year ago, on November 1, 2017, we wrote in this News section that the Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin had signed a decision to establish a statue in 2018 «between the houses 35 and 37 of the Big Pirogov Street». From August 1927 to February 1934, Mikhail Bulgakov himself lived in number 35A. This building is located outside the center of Moscow, some 5 km south of the Patriarch’s pond, near the so-called Third Ring Road.
The realisation of the monument was entrusted to sculptor Georgy Frangulyan (°1945), who is known inter alia by his statue of the Russian bard Bulat Okudzhava (1924-1997) on the Arbat.
And now it really seems to happen. The statue has already been put in place, next to a bus stop, although it is still completely wrapped up.
On 21 November, 2018, not coincidentally on the feast day of the Archangel Mikhail and «other immaterial celestial forces» it will be revealed. We are looking forward to it...
Big Pirogov Street
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