Gogol's Petersburg

III. Gogol's Petersburg

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Statue of Gogol in Admiralty Park, by Palace Square. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998

56. New post-Soviet statue of Gogol on Malaia Koniushennaia off Nevskii Prospekt. Gogol looks over his shoulder on the numerous sponsors listed on the foundation of the monumnet. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.

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New post-Soviet statue of Gogol on Malaia Koniushennaia, off Nevskii Prospekt. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.

58. Gogol: "Nevskii Prospekt." The Admiralty spire. This landmark is celebrated in Russian literature from Pushkin to Mandelstam and incorporated in Gogol's and Dostoevsky's prose as well. It marks the beginning of Nevskii Prospekt. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

59. Nevskii Prospekt. Photo: from Peter Weisensel's collections.

60. Nevskii Prospekt 39-41. The Anichkov Bridge over the Fontanka canal. Equestrial sculptures by Peter Klodt on the current stone bridge which replaced an older narrower bridge an before then there was a wooden bridge, constructed by the Mikhail Anichkov regiment during Peter the Great's time. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

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Belosel'skii-Beloserskii palace on Nevskii Prospekt 41, by the Anichkov bridge and the Fontanka canal. Stackenschneider, mid-18th-century Russian Baroque. Much of the action of Gogol's Petersburg tales took place by the Fontanka. Ditto in Dostoevsky's "The Double" and other novels. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

62. Nevskii Prospekt. Red & white tower=Old City hall. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

63. Alexander Nevskii Monastery at the south-east end of Nevskii Prospekt. Surrounded by moats, at one time it counted 12 churches and a number of chapels. Founded in 1710 by Peter the Great on what was believed to be the site of an important victory over the Swedes in 1240. Alexander Nevskii's (canonized in 1263) remains moved hither and are still held in this monastery. The most famous Petersburg necropolis is here, (the Lazarus and Tikhvin cemeteries) and among others, Karamzin and Dostoevsky are buried here, as are many of Russia's foremost composers and artists. Gate church, Starov 1783-85. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.

64. The Kazan Cathedral on kazan Square on the Nevskii Prospekt. Commissioned by paul I, admirer of St. pater's in Rome, shortly before his death. The Neo-Classical Alexandrine style church was built in 1801-1811 by Andrei Voronikhin. The collonnade of Corinthian columns is built on a huge scale-the columns are 43 feet high arranged in rows of four deep. Used to house the Virgin of kazan icon, stolen in 1904. In 1932 it was converted to the Museum of Religion and Atheism. This is the site for one of the encounters between the nose and Captain kovalev in Gogol's "The Nose." Photo: Peter Weisensel

65. The Kazan Cathedral as wintrer playground. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1987.

66. Cafe "The Nose" with a Nose bas relief attached to the corner. On Voznesenskii Prospekt, one of the settings popular in Gogol's Petersburg tales. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.

67. The Nose cafe, close-up. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.

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Griboedov canal 69/18 The green-and-white house is Zverkov's house in Gogol's "Notes of a Madman." Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.

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55.	Statue of Gogol in Admiralty Park, by Palace Square. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998
56.	New post-Soviet statue of Gogol on Malaia Koniushennaia off Nevskii Prospekt. Gogol looks over his shoulder on the numerous sponsors listed on the foundation of the monumnet. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.
57.	New post-Soviet statue of Gogol on Malaia Koniushennaia, off Nevskii Prospekt. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.
58.	Gogol: "Nevskii Prospekt." The Admiralty spire. This landmark is celebrated in Russian literature from Pushkin to Mandelstam and incorporated in Gogol's and Dostoevsky's prose as well. It marks the beginning of Nevskii Prospekt. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
59.	Nevskii Prospekt. Photo: from Peter Weisensel's collections.
60.	Nevskii Prospekt 39-41. The Anichkov Bridge over the Fontanka canal. Equestrial sculptures by Peter Klodt on the current stone bridge which replaced an older narrower bridge an before then there was a wooden bridge, constructed by the Mikhail Anichkov regiment during Peter the Great's time. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
61.	Belosel'skii-Beloserskii palace on Nevskii Prospekt 41, by the Anichkov bridge and the Fontanka canal. Stackenschneider, mid-18th-century Russian Baroque. Much of the action of Gogol's Petersburg tales took place by the Fontanka. Ditto in Dostoevsky's "The Double" and other novels. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
62.	Nevskii Prospekt. Red & white tower=Old City hall. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
63.	Alexander Nevskii Monastery at the south-east end of Nevskii Prospekt. Surrounded by moats, at one time it counted 12 churches and a number of chapels. Founded in 1710 by Peter the Great on what was believed to be the site of an important victory over the Swedes in 1240. Alexander Nevskii's (canonized in 1263) remains moved hither and are still held in this monastery. The most famous Petersburg necropolis is here, (the Lazarus and Tikhvin cemeteries) and among others, Karamzin and Dostoevsky are buried here, as are many of Russia's foremost composers and artists. Gate church, Starov 1783-85. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991.
64.	The Kazan Cathedral on kazan Square on the Nevskii Prospekt. Commissioned by paul I, admirer of St. pater's in Rome, shortly before his death. The Neo-Classical Alexandrine style church was built in 1801-1811 by Andrei Voronikhin. The collonnade of Corinthian columns is built on a huge scale-the columns are 43 feet high arranged in rows of four deep. Used to house the Virgin of kazan icon, stolen in 1904. In 1932 it was converted to the Museum of Religion and Atheism. This is the site for one of the encounters between the nose and Captain kovalev in Gogol's "The Nose." Photo: Peter Weisensel
65.	The Kazan Cathedral as wintrer playground. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1987.
66.	Cafe "The Nose" with a Nose bas relief attached to the corner. On Voznesenskii Prospekt, one of the settings popular in Gogol's Petersburg tales. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.
67.	The Nose cafe, close-up. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.
68.	Griboedov canal 69/18 The green-and-white house is Zverkov's house in Gogol's "Notes of a Madman." Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.