"I advise you to bury my pitiful ashes in the unmarked cemetery in Sverdlovsk." A square dedicated to the poet Boris Ryzhy has opened in Yekaterinburg.
Poet Boris Ryzhy, known as the Sverdlovsk Yesenin, committed suicide in 2001. The idea to open a park in his name appeared seven years ago, but that time I encountered protest from the veterans' community.
This year, city residents made another attempt: they collected nearly 200 signatures and secured the support of local council members, business owners, and the Yekaterinburg History Museum. Today, their petition was reviewed by the Toponymy Commission and approved.
The square has officially appeared on the city map. It's located in the Vtorchermet district, between the house where the poet grew up and the school where he attended.
«This is our Ural cultural phenomenon, our Yesenin.", - stressed Director of the Yekaterinburg History Museum Igor Pushkarev, speaking in defense of the idea of opening a park.
In the near future, they plan to install lighting there, carry out landscaping, and build an amphitheater for young poets.
This year, Boris Ryzhy would have turned 50. In his 26 years, he wrote more than 1300 poems and was considered the most talented poet of the 90s. Some of his works have been translated into English, Dutch, Italian, and German.
They will acquire a pan-European gloss
words of a trans-Asian poet,
I will forget the fairytale Sverdlovsk
and a school yard in the Vtorchermet area.
But wherever I happen to cool down,
in sultry Paris, chilly London,
I advise you to bury my pathetic ashes
at an unnamed cemetery in Sverdlovsk.
Photo: EAN
