Photo credit: Ilya Repin. Mikhail Glinka while composing the Ruslan and Lyudmila opera. 1887
Another mention of the famous Russian composer Mikhail Glinka will appear on the map of the German capital, TASS reports. The Mohrenstrasse metro station in Berlin will be renamed in his honor.
According to local media, the station was previously named after Mohrenstrasse Street, which can be translated from German as “Moors' Street”. Recently, this name began to be considered discriminatory. Therefore, BVG, the operator of the city public transport system of Berlin, decided to name the station “Glinkastrasse” in honor of the street named after the composer. It is located near the metro station.
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The BVG stated that it is a cosmopolitan company and does not want to have anything to do with any form of racism or other discrimination.
This is not the first renaming of the metro station. Earlier, it was named in honor of the main German communist Ernst Thalmann, and in honor of the German kaiser.
Berlin was one of Glinka's favorite cities: he visited it many times and died there in 1857. It was precisely because of this connection between the Russian composer and the German capital that in 1951, one of its streets was renamed Glinkastrasse.
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