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.