On the pedestal of the Pushkin monument, unveiled in Moscow on 6 June 1880, lines from the poem "Monument" were carved:

And long shall I be loved by the people for this,
That with my lyre I awakened kindly feelings.

As early as 1880 it became known that the version of "Monument" published in Zhukovsky's edition contained censorial corrections and differed considerably from the original, touching important lines. Zhukovsky struck out the passages inconvenient to the ideology of the day and re-rhymed entire lines. Yet, for some reason, everyone ignored the report of this made by the literary scholar Pyotr Ivanovich Bartenev at the public session held on the occasion of the unveiling of the Pushkin monument. The autograph of the poem survived among the papers of the poet's eldest son, which were acquired in that very year, 1880, by Pyotr Bartenev, a pioneer of Pushkin studies, and by the state repository of books.

The lines, corrected in accordance with Pushkin's authentic text, would appear on the pedestal only in 1937, at the petition of the Academy of Sciences and the Union of Writers, by decision of the Pushkin Jubilee Committee.