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Pushkin Hills

Pushkin Hills is a literary museum-reserve in the Pskov region, The museum dedicated to the legacy of Russia's greatest ??et Alexander Pushkin, and thematically connects the three main places associated with Pushkin's life. The reserve include the Pushkin Family estate in the village of Mikhailovskoye, the villages of Trigorskoye, Petrovskoe, and the Sviatogorsky Monastery, where Pushkin was buried in1837.

Museum including Mikhailovskoye, Trigorskoye and Petrovskoye settlements, Sviatogorsky monastery, where the greatest Russian poet is buried, is situated in the settlement Pushkinskie Gory. Russian National Poetry Festival is held in the reserve on Pushkin's birthday on June, 6.

Mikhajlovskoye is a village where one of the greatest Russian poets Alexander Pushkin lived’and worked. There is a museum called after him in Mikhajlovskoye. Nature of this village - reserve imbues visitors with spirit of the 19th century and admires with ponds, age-old trees and paths.