In the year of the centenary of the death of the great writer Nikolai.In. Gogol, in 52, the year of the last century, the authorities of the city was born the plan for installation of the monument to the great writer at the Manege square in Leningrad. In the same year was laid the cornerstone for the proposed placement of the monument. However, the stone remained in this state until 1999, and the monument to Gogol was built on a different location.

The opening of the memorial in a solemn ceremony happened only in 1997. The installation site has chosen an ancient cobbled street in the heart of St. Petersburg, one of the first pedestrian, Malaya Konyushennaya. Malaya Konushennaya – original name. Street in the eighteenth century changed the name to Christmas, and then the Soviet authorities renamed it St. Sophia Perovskaya. Original name Malaya Konyushennaya regained in 1992, October 4.

In St. Petersburg the opening of the monument to the writer, the author of the immortal "Viy" and "Dead souls", "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" and "Taras Bulba", made possible through the efforts of society "Club Nevsky prospect" and at his expense, and with the support of other organizations and enterprises of the city on the Neva, the list of which can be read on the reverse side of the pedestal of the monument. The author of the project of the monument is Mikhail Belov, a former pupil of M. K. Anikushin – famous sculptor from St. Petersburg, the author of the monument to Pushkin.

Monument on Malaya Konyushennaya is not the only and, perhaps, one of the youngest monuments Nikolai. One of the first monuments was installed in Nizhyn Parmena p. Zabello in 1881 (now there's two of them). Later came the monuments in Moscow, Prechistenskaya (currently – Gogol) Boulevard (the present site of the sculpture is Nikitsky Boulevard), Volgograd (Tsaritsyn at the time of the erection of the sculpture) on St. Catherine street (now the street on which stands a monument, by the way, the oldest in the city, called Gogol), Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava. In Kiev is a monument to the "Nose", which can be seen on Andrew's descent, on the house 34.

Work on the monument continued for one year. Mysticism and mystery in the image of Nikolai Gogol that sought to display the sculptor in his work. On the architectural appearance of the project worked well-known artist and architect Vladimir 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 workshop A. V. Rytov were carved the letters on the pedestal and polishing.

The inscription on the facade reads: "Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol". Indeed, this monument was erected as a recognition and honoring of residents, whom Gogol is so much dedicated in their work and in life, because the cycle of the novel ("Nevsky prospect", "Portrait", "the Overcoat," "the Nose," "diary of a madman") is a special period in the creative work of Nikolai Gogol, often referred to by literary critics as the second, "St. Petersburg" period of creativity and genius of the writer.

Nikolai stands, arms crossed, in a long coat with a Cape, the folds of her clothes touching the pedestal. Head writer turned slightly to the left, away from Nevsky, eyes looking down. Gogol brooding, and it seems as if strolling down the cobbled street, he stopped because he had an inspiration, and he ponders the idea of a new immortal works. With four lights in antique style, installed next to the monument, successfully complete the sculpture and allow you to fit the monument to the architecture Malaya Konyushennaya.