Immediately opposite the Aleksandr Pushkin Memorial Apartment is a bronze statue of Aleksandr Pushkin and his wife Natalia Goncharova. Pushkin and Goncharova married in the nearby Grand Ascension Church on 18 November 1831 and then moved into their apartment on Arbat and lived there for several months.  It says something of Pushkin's popularity that a place where he lived only very briefly has since been turned into a museum and has seen a monument to him erected outside!

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