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Arbatskaya ploshchad'
Арбатская площадь

Николай Васильевич Гоголь

Nikolay Vasil'yevich Gogol'

Sorochyntsi 1809 - Moscow 1852
Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist
(Wikipedia)

Nikolay Tomskiy
1952

Moscow - Москва / Николай Васильевич Гоголь

Description

Bronze statue.

Inscription(s)

великому русскому
художнику слова
николаю васильевичу
ГОГОЛЮ
от правительства
советского союза
2 марта 1952 года

To the great Russian
artist with words
Nikolai Vasil'yevich
GOGOL'
from the government
of the Soviet Union
2 March 1952

Signed: скульптор ТОМСКИЙ

Annotation

Tomskiy's standing bronze figure of Gogol replaced in 1952 the seated figure by Andreyev, said to be hated by Stalin himself.

Sculptor

Nikolay Vasil'yevich Tomskiy - Николай Васильевич Томский (Ramushevo Starorusskiy uyesd, Novgorodskoy gubernii 1900 - Moscow 1984) Soviet Russian sculptor, designer of many monuments of the Socialist Realism era - Commemorative plaque in Moscow (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Moscow International Portal, Monuments and Statues.
Clow.ru, Монументальная летопись, file 29-30.

Locatie (N 55°45'2" - E 37°36'1") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ru095; Photograph: 10 July 2011
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