Image: Портрет Гоголя

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Description: The portrait exhibited in Tretyakov Gallery is author’s replica of the original portrait painted for the mother of Nikolai Gogol in 1841 in Rome. The original portrait was kept in Vasilievka, Gogol’s estate, then it was at the house of A.V. Gogol, the sister of the writer. In 1919 S.N. Bykova, the grand-nephew of N. Gogol, transferred the original portrait to the collection of Poltava Museum of Local History, where the portrait was housed till 1941. It was lost during the German occupation of Ukraine.
Title: Portrait of Nikolai Gogol
Credit: 1. Transfered from ru.wikipedia 2. plumblines.files.wordpress.com 3. picasaweb.google.com 4. thueringen.assorti.de 5. Tretyakov Gallery
Author: Fyodor Moller
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