The eleventh bronze Pushkin will be sent to Africa. Not with guns, but with Pushkin's, with Russian culture, with your own generosity and kindness, you need to conquer the world. The president of the International Academy of Kindness, sculptor Grigory Potocki, is convinced of this. He has long and firmly put "our everything" on the stream. Ten countries - ten monuments to Pushkin around the world. Germany, the USA, Canada, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Egypt, China, and the Philippines considered it an honor to install bronze copies of the famous Russian poet. The eleventh Pushkin will go almost to his "historical homeland" - to the African Ghana. And the republic's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dr. Seth Carantin, assured that he would be treated like a native there. Of course, the glorious Hannibal family and the Republic of Ghana are only consonant. In fact, Pushkin's famous ancestor, the Arap of Peter the Great, came from Ethiopia.

Girls danced in kokoshniks, boys played drums. The guests wanted to be blacks. And the Negroes are Russian. In general, a complete interchange of cultures. A thin" tanned "singer on high stilettos excitedly made her knees and sang with a slight accent:" Valenki, valenki, eh, they are not sewn old..."

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