Statues!

I took a walk in the snow on Saturday, and came upon many a statue.

This is my favorite. It is Vladimir Vysotsky, the famous Russian bard. His music being trenchantly anti-Soviet, it was, obviously, banned. He gained a huge underground following, though, and, as is clear from the picture, is remembered quite well.




During life, though, he was most famous for being an actor, his defining roll being that of Hamlet. Here he is preforming Hamlet's famous monologue.




The others don't get so extensive a description.

Here is Nikolai Chernyshevsky.


He was a famous Socialist author and philosopher as well as an influence of Lenin.

This is Mikhail Lermontov.


Poet and novelist, his most famous work A Hero of Our Time is one which, unfortunately, I have yet to read.