Nikolai Gogol - Vevey, Switzerland
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer of Ukrainian ethnicity.
Waymark Code: WMP89D
Location: Vaud, Switzerland
Date Posted: 07/18/2015
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Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospekt"). His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore.[13][14] His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), leading to his eventual exile. The novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", round out the tally of his best-known works.
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The memorial is located on the bank of Lake Geneva. It consists bronze scroll and feather, with on the scroll a portrait of Gogol with his signature and on the back a relief with figures from Gogol's books.
Memorial text
Ici a vécu et travaillé en 1836
Nicolas Gogol (1809-1852),
écrivain mondialement connu,
né r Poltava.
Sculpteur: Anatoliy Valiev.
Architecte: Yuriy Pidgorodetskiy.
Directeur de l'atelier "Peintre":
Valeriy Cheveluk.
Le monument a été érigé grâce
aux donations de la famille Porochenko.
Don de l'Ukraini
r la ville de Vevey
(2009).