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GAGARIN YURI: (1934-1968) Soviet cosmonaut, the first human to journey into outer space, April 1961. An attractive vintage signed colour 4 x 6 picture postcard by Gagarin, the image depicting the statue of Alexander Pushkin in the centre of Pushkinskaya Square, Moscow, being admired by a small group of ladies. Signed by Gagarin in blue ink with his name alone to a clear area of the background. A couple of very light, extremely minor corner creases, VG
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) Russian poet, playwright and novelist of the Romantic era.
The statue of Pushkin featured in the postcard was unveiled by Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1880. In more recent history, on 5th December 1965, it was the site of the Glasnost Meeting, the first spontaneous public political demonstration in the Soviet Union after World War II.
