Perhaps nowhere else except in St. Petersburg can not be seen as interesting and original monuments and attractions. Flying thoughts of St. Petersburg sculptors and architects is impressive: here you will meet a huge number of monuments to people and animals that existed in real life or in books of great writers. Among the honored memory in stone or bronze - birds and cats, dogs and horses, and the kings of photographers, The Little Prince, and many other characters of history and literature. But among all the literary characters, there was one that stands out from the usual number. This is one of the main characters of the novel by Nikolai Gogol - Nose. And the nose is exactly where he lived his master, a collegiate assessor, and he called himself to the importance of Major Kovalyov.

The monument to the hero fantastic story was planted at the front of the house number 11 on the prospect of Rimsky-Korsakov in 1995, when the city held the "Golden Ostap" (international festival of satire and humor). Nose immortalized in pink marble, produced in Ukraine, Gogol's homeland, and is built on the slab of gray limestone. Plate size is 60 cm in height and 35 - in width.

Amazing things happen with the characters in the pages of Gogol's works of genius. Monument to the Nose did just that, as does the nose in the story. Once, in 2002, one September morning, St. Petersburg found no nose at the place where he was supposed to be. He supposedly went for a walk. And, after a fruitless search, it was made a copy of the monument, which is somewhat different from the former nose (slightly smaller than the original, and carved with the tip of the nose wart). A copy is already ready for installation, when he decided to go nose. And the summer of 2003 a monument found on the streets of Central Podyacheskaya, at number 15, at the site of the stairwell. So, a real nose returned to its rightful place, and his understudy decided to hang on the facade of the house number two in the alley Chernoretsk (one of the buildings of the Museum of City Sculpture). Thus, in St. Petersburg came just two unusual monument to the literary character.

The idea of ​​creating a monument Nose belongs to Vadim Semenovich Beetle - actor, screenwriter, playwright .  With regard to the author's original sculpture, his popularity could easily compete with the popularity of the prototype of the monument .  The sculptor of the monument is a man of multifaceted talent, brilliantly manifested itself in many creative professions, such as a writer, painter, filmmaker, author of costumes, of course, the sculptor and the other .  His name - Rezo Gabriadze .  Among his works - scripts for such famous movies as "Mimino", "Do not worry! ", "Kin-Dza-Dza" .  Gabriadze is also the author of no less famous (and even, in some way, religious) monument finch-Pyzhik - a kind of symbol of St. Petersburg .  In recognition for the artist Rezo Gabriadze has been awarded numerous prizes and awards (USSR State Prize, Prize Nick Golden Mask, Triumph, etc. . ) .  Rezo Levanovich is also the holder of the title of Chevalier of the Order of the Second Prize of the French Republic .

The story of the disappearance of the monument to the nose, returning it to its original location and the appearance of the second Nose would not be complete without a mention of construction in 2006, another unusual monument to the nose. At this time, the monument Nose (NV Gogol!) Has been established in Kiev on the facade of a house on St. Andrew descent. After all, according to the literature, the idea of ​​Gogol's novel was born in the brilliant head of Nikolai in Kyiv. Now "Gogol's The Nose" - one of the main attractions of Kiev.