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Гоголевский бульвар

Михаил Александрович Шолохов

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

"Where do the horses sail"

Veshenskaya 1905 - Veshenskaya 1984
Soviet Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature
(Wikipedia)

Iulian Rukavishnikov & Aleksandr Rukavishnikov
2007

Moscow - Москва / Михаил Александрович Шолохов

Description

Bronze sculpture group showing Sholokhov in a rowing boat among the sea of horses' heads. On the other side of the foot path is a bronze bench and are several bronze pages of a manuscript in the pavement.

Inscription(s)

МИХАИЛУ ШОЛОХОВУ

To Mikhail Sholokhov

Signed:
[с]кульпторы александр иулиан и филипп рукавишниковы
[?]архитекоры игорь и антон воскресенские
(sculptors: Aleksander, Iulian and Philipp Rukavishnikov
architects: Igor' and Anton Voskresenkiy)

Annotation

The monument's designer Alexander Rukovoshnikov explained the idea he had intended to transmit with this monument:

Sholokhov sits in a boat and sees the surface of an imaginary river. The horses seem to surround the boat, but actually they are swimming in different directions. The horses are allusions of ‘red' [pro-Communist] and ‘white' [pro-Tsar] armies of the Civil War (1917-1921). The opposing directions in which horses are swimming are supposed to symbolize the civil confrontation of ‘red' and ‘white' supports. The Civil War was and how it broke the society and even families was a prominent theme in Sholokhov's writing.

Sholokhov used to live in this neighborhood, on the Sivtsev Vrazhek pereulok - Сивцев Вражек переулок.

Sculptors

Aleksandr Iulianovich Rukavishnikov - Александр Иулианович Рукавишников (Moscow 1950), Russian sculptor, son of Iulian Rukavishnikov and father of Philipp Rukavishnikov (Wikipedia).
Iulian Mitrofanovich Rukavishnikov - Иулиан Митрофанович Рукавишников (Moscow 1922 - Moscow 2000), Soviet Russian sculptor, father of Aleksandr Rukavishnikov (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Moscowia, Where do the hourses sail, or Sholokhov's monument on Gogol Boulevard.

Locatie (N 55°44'48" - E 37°35'58") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ru134; Photograph: 12 July 2011
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