In the year of the centenary of the death of the great writer NV Gogol, in the 52nd year of the last century, the city was born from the authorities plan to install a monument to the great writer on Manezh Square in Leningrad. In the same year, a stone was laid on the site of the proposed placement of the monument. However, the stone remained in that state until 1999, and a monument was erected on Gogol elsewhere.

Opening of the monument in a solemn ceremony happened only in 1997. The location of the chosen ancient cobbled street in the heart of St. Petersburg, one of the first pedestrian, Malaya Konyushennaya. Small Stables - original name. Street in the XVIII century, changed its name to Christmas, and then the Soviet authorities renamed it in the street. Sophia Perovskoy. The former name Malaya Konyushennaya regained in 1992, 4 October.

In St. Petersburg, the opening of a monument to the writer, the author of the immortal "Wii" and "Dead Souls", "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" and "Taras Bulba", was made possible through the efforts of society "Club Nevsky Prospekt" and at his expense, and with the support of other organizations and enterprises of the city on the Neva, a list of which can be found on the back side of the pedestal of the monument. The author of the monument is a project Mikhail Belov, a former pupil of MK Anikushina - famous sculptor from St. Petersburg, the author of the monument to Pushkin.

Monument to the Little Stables - is not the only and, perhaps, one of the newest monuments Nikolai Vasilyevich. One of the first monument was erected in the beautiful ancient city Parmenov Petrovich Zabello in 1881 (now there are two). Later, there were monuments in Moscow Prechistensky (currently - Gogol) Boulevard (the present location of the statue is Nikitsky Boulevard), Volgograd (Tsaritsyn at the time of the erection of the sculpture) Catherine street (now the street where there is a monument, by the way, the oldest in the city called Gogol), Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava. In Kiev, there is a monument "nose" that can be seen in Andrew's descent on the house 34.

Work on the monument lasted for more than one year. Mystique and mystery in the image of Nikolai Gogol - that's what the sculptor wanted to show in his work. Above the architectural look of the project work of the famous artist and architect Vladimir Sergeyevich Vasilkovsky. The figure of the writer, a height of 3 meters 40 centimeters, was executed in bronze and placed on a pedestal of granite. The total height of the monument is five meters. In the studio AV Rytov were cut letters on the pedestal and polishing.

The inscription on the front reads: "Nikolai Gogol". Indeed, this monument is raised as a recognition and reverence of the inhabitants of the city, which Gogol so much devoted to his work and in his life, because the cycle Petersburg tales ("Nevsky Prospect", "Portrait", "The Overcoat," "nose," "Notes Madman ") - a special period in the creative activity of Nikolai Gogol, often mentioned as a second literary critics," St. Petersburg "period of creative genius writer.

Nikolai standing with arms crossed in a long coat with a cape, folds clothes touching the pedestal. Head writer turned slightly to the left, away from the Nevsky gaze directed downward. Gogol thoughtful, and it seems as if walking on bruschatoy street, he stopped because he had insight, and it is considering the idea of ​​a new immortal. Four old-style lamp, installed next to the monument, successfully complete the sculpture and allow harmoniously fit into the architecture of a monument to the Little Stables.