Two Monuments to N.V. Gogol in Moscow Made by Anastasiya Myravyeva School № 20,

Myravyeva School №20, Form 8a
Teacher: L.V. Fomina

writer’s birthday and was installed in Prechistensky boulevard. The authors

of the monument were a sculptor N. Andreev and an architect F. Shehtel.

Two sculptural monuments are erected
in Moscow in honour of Nikolai Gogol .

one in 1952 in the year of the centenary of

the death of Gogol. The first one was moved to the yard of the house-museum of Gogol in Nikitsky boulevard. The authors were a sculptor N. Tomsky and an architect L.Golubovsky.

both sides of Arbat square two monuments to the same

person were installed on a relatively small distance from each other. The distance was less than 400 metres.

Monuments are different because of style and emotional impression. N. Andreev and N.Tomsky interpret the image of the Great Russian writer a diametrically opposite way partly because of a consequence of the historical and cultural context of the time in which these monuments were created.

masterpiece and one of the best sculptures in the streets

of the capital. His monument to Gogol is appreciated as one of the peaks of his creativity, as a work which has great artistic and social significance.

in the days of celebrations dedicated to the opening of

the monument to Pushkin in 1880. A subscription to raise funds was opened on the initiative of the society of fans of Russian literature. By the end of 1890 the total sum was 52 thousand rubles and the Russian Literature Lovers Society decided to found a Committee for the construction of a monument to N.V. Gogol.

comedy "the Auditor"
The side of a bas-relief
Characters of collected

stories “Narratives of St. Petersburg”

The characters of collected stories "Mirgorod"

of " sorrowful" Gogol, by which he regularly had to

pass through on his way from the Kremlin to the Kuntsevskaya dacha. Of course, the previous monument could neither be removed nor install a new one without his approval.

the end of 1940s and early 1950s in due to

install a new one to the centenary of the death of N. Gogol. This date was celebrated very widely in 1952. Many talented and famous sculptors of that time took part in the competitions.

competition was not accidental. In 1951 he executed the marble

bust of N. Gogol, for which a year later he was awarded by the Stalin Prize. This bust was the fifth in the career of the sculptor. An enlarged copy of the bust was set on the tomb of Gogol. The bust was a prototype of a man's height bronze monument to the writer.

The writer's image was represented in a new interpretation. It

was a writer who stood on a high pedestal smiling, full of force and radiating optimism.