Park scene

Tuesday evening.  Gogolevsky Boulevard.  Named after the writer, Nikolai Gogol.

This is the old symbolist statue of Gogol on the boulevard in the 1920s.  Replaced by the Soviets with a "more orthodox" statue in 1952.

The full story on this from Wikipedia:  "The first Gogol monument in Moscow, a Symbolist statue on Arbat Square, represented the sculptor Nikolay Andreyev's idea of Gogol rather than the real man. Unveiled in 1909, the statue received praise from Ilya Repin and from Leo Tolstoy as an outstanding projection of Gogol's tortured personality. Joseph Stalin did not like it, however, and the statue was replaced by a more orthodox Socialist Realism monument in 1952. It took enormous efforts to save Andreyev's original work from destruction; as of 2014 it stands in front of the house where Gogol died."