Bus-shelter mosaic, Dolna
A roadside bus shelter with a mosaic in Dolna, a village in the Strășeni Codru forests, about 52 km from Chișinău. Dolna is where the poet Alexander Pushkin spent the summer of 1821, at the Ralli family manor — which is why, in the Soviet period, the village was named Pushkino (Пушкино); today the manor is a house-museum, and the legend of the Roma girl Zamfira, tied to the spring that bears her name, is said to have inspired his poem “The Gypsies”. Nothing, however, is recorded about the shelter's mosaic itself: neither author, year, nor subject is documented, and the photographs in the Mosaics of Moldova inventory (photo Andrei Zuza) are not under a free licence, so the panel cannot be described from images. As everywhere in rural Bessarabia — where the railway rarely reached — the bus stop was the village's gateway to the wider world, and many were decorated in the 1970s–80s with colourful mosaics by local, now-anonymous craftspeople.
- Neighborhood
- Dolna, r. Strășeni