Tschischik-Pyschik
The Tschischik-Pyschik ( Russian Памятник Чижику-Пыжику ) is a bronze statue of a Erlenzeisigs containing about eastern North-half the height between the water level and road at the quay wall to the engineer bridge ( Russian Инженерный мост ) at the junction of the flows Fontanka and Moika in Sankt Petersburg is appropriate. The small monument is 11 cm high and weighs 5 kg. The figure was installed on November 19, 1994 at the instigation of the architect Vyacheslav Bukhayev ( Russian Вячеслав Борисович Бухаев ). It was designed by the Georgian artist Rewas Lewanowitsch Gabriadze .
The statue refers to a popular folk rhyme:
- Чижик-пыжик, где ты был?
- На Фонтанке водку пил.
- Выпил рюмку, выпил две -
- Зашумело в голове.
- Tschischik-Pyschik, where have you been?
- I drank vodka.
- On the bank of the Fontanka.
- First a glass, then a second -
- And now my head is buzzing.
There are at least two legends about the origin of rhyme. The first goes back almost 200 years. The Imperial Law School was founded in 1835 . The institute was located at Fontanka 6 . The students wore green and yellow uniforms, the colors of which were associated with an alder siskin (Russian чиж , Czech , diminutive Tschischik ), while pyschik ( пыжик ) is the Russian term for reindeer calves and their fur, from which, among other things, the students wore Fur hats were made. According to legend, the students liked to spend their evenings in the bar of the merchant Nefjodow ( Нефёдов ), where a lot of vodka is said to have flowed. The second legend tells that birds were observed drinking vodka at this point.
Shortly after inauguration, the custom of throwing coins at the bird developed. If a coin remains on the pedestal, a wish comes true. Due to the high symbolic value and perhaps also because of the material value, the figure has been stolen several times.
The popularity of the small monument is probably related to the fact that it does not refer to political or historical realities, but rather deals with the human weakness for alcoholic beverages. It may therefore not be a coincidence that the pedestal on which the statue stands is below street level.
Individual evidence
- ↑ eva / SPZ: Petersburg has a bird: the Tschischik-Pischik . March 3, 2006. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
Coordinates: 59 ° 56 ′ 30 ″ N , 30 ° 20 ′ 16 ″ E