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Penza is the second literary capital

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"Penza is my inspirer. The hill, on which the city lies, is my Parnassus since long ago ... "

«Пенза – моя вдохновительница. Холм, на коем лежит этот город, есть мой Парнас с давнего времени…»

Denis Davydov

Денис Давыдов

«Пенза – моя вдохновительница. Холм, на коем лежит этот город, есть мой Парнас с давнего времени…»

M.E.Saltykov-Shchedrin was the chairman of the Treasury Chamber in this house.

Officials from Penza became the prototype of a number of characters of the writer.

V.G.Belinsky studied at the Penza gymnasium

Belinsky ‘s monument is located in the square opposite the Regional Drama Theater named after A.M.Lunacharsky

V.E.Meyerhold was born in Penza and studied in the second male gymnasium

In 1817 Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov at the age of three with his grandmother came to Penza

In winter, they stayed in the house of Stolypin

Vladimir Mayakovski came to Penza twice.

The first time they with David Burliuk gave a concert in 1914.

The second time Mayakovsky was in Penza in 1927.

From Penza into the region...

Mikhail Lermontov spent his childhood in the estate Tarkhany of Penza region

Lermontov ‘s monument was installed in July 1978

Russia's only museum of A.I. Kuprin is located in the village Narovchat

M.N.Zagoskin’s childhood passed in the village Ramsay

School is named after him

Writers and poets were guests n the house in the village Zubrilova of Prince Golitsyn and were friends of Prince

G.R.Derzhavin

I.A.Krylov

, P.A.Vyazemsky

In Chembar was childhood of V.G.Belinsky

In Chembar there were writers M.E.Saltykov-Shchedrin, I.I.Lazhechnikov, long lived P.I.Zamoyski

In Chembar M.U.Lermontov wrote one of his early poems.

Our countrymen revere the memory of the great writers and poets who have contributed to world literature

Streets, squares, parks, universities are named after writers and poets

Belinsky Street

Pushkin Street

Lermontov Street

Nekrasov Street

Street Kuprina

Square and the library was named after Lermontov

Lermontov Square

Library named after Lermontov

Small theater named after Meyerhold, who was Soviet director, actor and playwright.

The house of Meyerhold

Penza State Pedagogical University named after Belinsky

Park named after Belinsky also has in Penza