Founded in 1997, The Pushkin Legacy has played an important role in Russian-American cultural relations. In April 1999, on the eve of the 200th anniversary of Pushkin’s birth, Pushkin Legacy and Stanford University hosted the now famous International Pushkin Conference.

Attended by over 300 Pushkin Scholars from around the world, it was the largest Pushkin conference ever held outside of Russia. The resulting scholarship and publications continue to have an effect on the study of Pushkin and his works.

Pushkin Fund Grants
The Fund issues financial grants on a one-time or continuing basis to entities and individuals that, in the judgment of the Fund’s Management Board and Advisory Council meet the definitions of the Fund’s Mission Statement and are within the financial capability of the Fund. Grants are issued based on a formal application procedure and grantees are held to strict standards of accountability in the use of grant funds.

Grants in support of Social Welfare

• Children’s Hospital #15, St. Petersburg
  Continuing grants for facility and equipment improvements. Founded in 1893 this hospital supports the health and welfare of orphans and children whose parents have lost their rights. On June 16, 2003, the new playground and secured outdoor area, initiated and sponsored by the Fund was officially dedicated. In October 2005, contributions generated by the Fund and its sponsors permitted the purchase of an EEG unit and an ultrasound machine for the hospital. In 2006, proceeds from the Ball helped realize a much needed roof for the hospital.

• The Boarding School for Musical Education at Mytischi, Moscow Oblast
  As the name indicates, a special orphanage for children who are musically gifted. The Fund makes continuing grants for musical equipment to facilitate the education of these children and the realization of their special gifts.

• The 32nd Psycho-Neurological Children’s Hospital, Moscow
  The Fund and its sponsors are funding the acquisition of an EEG unit for use in the diagnostic programs of
  this hospital that is so critical to the health of its young patients.

• Bykovo Orphanage, Moscow Oblast
  Continuing Fund grants will aid this orphanage in the provision of much-needed basic materials and supplies.

Grants for Culture and the Arts:

• Pushkin National Museum, St. Petersburg
  Continuing grants for education conferences and presentations, the publication of the first official museum
  guidebook and the film on the descendants of the Lyceum graduates.

• Pushkinsky Dom, St. Petersburg
  Continuing grants for preservation of the archives. Pushkinsky Dom is the repository of the priceless manuscripts of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky and others.

• Department of Pushkin Studies – Sergei Fomichev, St. Petersburg
  The leading Pushkin scholar in Russia. Continuing grants for publications and conferences , including the
  2002 Crimea Pushkin Conference. The Fund is now supporting the Pushkinsky Dom in the digital recording
  of Pushkin’s original working manuscripts.

• Mikhailovskoye State Preserve Museum, Pskov Oblast
  Continuing grants for the restoration and preservation of Petrovskoye, Pushkin’s ancestral home.

• State Pushkin Museum, Moscow
  Grants for various publications, including “Memories”, the most important book to be published by the Museum in the last twenty years. Further grants in support of the restoration of the V. L. Pushkin House Museum.

PUSHKIN LEGACY
Registration # 116467 • Established 1997, Stanford, California, USA
INTERNATIONAL PUSHKIN CHARITY FUND
Registration # 002.073.343 • Established 2001, Moscow, Russia