Abstract
The article focuses on the busts of Alexander I and the Russian poetic reception of the sculp-tural portrait in the fi rst third of the 19th century. Consideration of this sculptural genre from a political and cultural perspective, combined with the analysis of the Russian poetry on busts, helps to reveal numerous contradictions that accompanied the formation of the image of the Russian emperor in sculpture. The most profound poetic response to these contradictions turns out to be «To the Bust of the Conqueror» by Alexander Pushkin.
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