Alexander Pushkin

Arkadij Klimovicki points out that, through Pique Dame, Tchaikovsky essentially acts as mediator between Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's Petersburg and Bely's, while his Nutcracker stands as the first "subjectless" ballet, forging a link to works like Petrushka and the symbolist poetry of Alexander Alexandrovich Blok and Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.

The main action of Pushkin House occurs, speaking metaphorically, in a place of that name--the many-chambered mansion of Russian literature founded, so to speak, by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin early in the nineteenth century.