![Alexander Pushkin Statue Statue of Aleksandr Pushkin GWU](https://www.pw.org/files/styles/literary_places/public/literary_site_images/lpdb_pushkin_loc.jpg?itok=6sSM-M3Z)
The Alexander Pushkin statue by Alexander Bourganov was erected in 2000 on the campus of George Washington University as part of a cultural exchange between Moscow and Washington. In 2009, a statue of the American poet Walt Whitman was erected in Moscow. The bronze sculpture of Pushkin is posed in front of a tall column, and pearched atop the column is the winged horse Pegasus, representing “poetry and creative inspiration.”