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Monuments to M.A. Sholokhov

Admirers of the talent of M.A. Sholokhov set up monuments connected with the name of the writer in different parts of our country and abroad. It is a tribute for this wonderful man, who considered honourable for himself “to serve with his pen to the working people”.

M.A. Sholokhov. 1955.
Sculptor: Alexander Nikolayevich Chernitskiy (1918), the Member of the USSR Union of Artists, the academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Nature and Society.
Material: wood
It is kept in the literary museum (Pushkin’s House), Saint Petersburg.

M.A. Sholokhov. A head portrait, 1956.
Sculptor: Alexander Nikolayevich Chernitskiy (1918), the Member of the USSR Union of Artists, the academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Nature and Society.
Material: metal (bronze).
It is kept in the State Tretiyakov Picture Gallery.

A portrait of M.A. Sholokhov (half-figure with arms).
Sculptor: Alexander Nikolayevich Chernitskiy (1918), the Member of the USSR Union of Artists, the academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Nature and Society.
Material: metal (bronze).
Size: 1^1/4-full-size.
It is kept in Saint-Petersburg.

A bust of M.A. Sholokhov. 1958.
Sculptor: Evgheniy Viktorovich Vuchetich (1908-1974).
Material: marble.
Size: 50x40x40 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the Ryazan State Regional Museum of Fine Arts. Entered in 1965.

A bust of M.A. Sholokhov. 1958.
Sculptor: Evgheniy Viktorovich Vuchetich (1908-1974).
Material: gypsum.
Size: 50x24,5x18,5 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve. Entered from the house of M.A. Sholokhov in 1985, from the writer’s wife, Mariya Petrovna Sholokhova.
E.V. Vuchetich worked over the bust in Rostov, where the writer came for the meeting with his electors. The sculptor recollected: “Mikhail Alexanrovich and I met in the hotel “Moskovskaya”. Sholokhov said humorously: “If I have decided to get myself perpetuated, let’s begin then. And we’ll see what will come out…” It was difficult to work. All the time Sholokhov was visited by people, and Mikhail Alexandrovich talked with them for a long time. He also went to the meetings with the electors. Usually I could begin working over the portrait only late at night. We talked with Mikhail Alexandrovich discussing literary and other subjects. Sometimes our talks went far long over midnight. The work over the portrait lasted several days, to be more exact, several evenings and nights. I am happy that my dream has come true”.

A bust of M.A. Sholokhov. 1967.
Sculptor: Nina Nikolayevna Mukhatayeva (1926).
Material: marble.
Size: 70x60x75 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve. Entered in 1988.

M.A. Sholokhov. Sculpturs. 1978.
Sculptor: Nikolay Vasiliyevich Mozhayev (1928), the Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Material: glass-cement.
Size: 100x52x53 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the Mozhayev Fine Art Museum, the Rostov Region.

M.A. Sholokhov. 1978.
Sculptor: Nikolay Vasiliyevich Mozhayev (1928), the Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Material: gypsum.
Size: two-full-size.
It is set up in the Palace of Culture, Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, the Rostov Region.

M.A. Sholokhov. 1980.
Sculptor: Nikolay Vasiliyevich Mozhayev (1928), the Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Material: bronze, wood.
Size: 42x62x32 sm.
It is set up in the House-Museum of M.A. Sholokhov in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, the Rostov Region.

A project of the monument to M.A. Sholokhov (a working model, architect V. Desyatnichuk), 1981.
Sculptor: Nikolay Vasiliyevich Mozhayev (1928), the Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Co-author: E. Mozhayeva.
Material: gypsum tone.
Size: 132x42x18 sm.
It is kept in the Mozhayev Fine Art Museum, the Rostov Region.

A bust of M.A. Sholokhov
Sculptor: Anatoliy Semyonovich Novikov (1926), the Honoured Artist of the RSFSR; Vladimir Alexandrovich Klimov, an architect (Moscow).
Material: metal (bronze).
Size: two-full-size.
It was set up on May, 23, 1981, at the Don River embankment of Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, the Rostov Region.
The pedestal bears an inscription: “The Hero of Socialist Labour, the writer Sholokhov Mikhail Alexandrovich, was awarded the Order of Lenin and the second Gold medal “Sickle and Hammer” for outstanding merits in the development of Soviet literature by the Decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium of May, 23, 1980.
Having made the bust sketches, the authors of the project came to Vyoshenskaya in November, 1980, on the writer’s invitation. In the sketches M.A. Sholokhov was portrayed wearing a Russian blouse. The writer examined  the given variant attentively and asked: “Put a field shirt on me, please”. The authors of the bust followed the writer’s wish.

M.A. Sholokhov. 1983.
Sculptor: Nikolay Vasiliyevich Mozhayev (1928), the Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Material: metal (bronze).
Size: 65x24x30 sm.
It is kept in the Mozhayev Fine Art Museum, the Rostov Region.

M.A. Sholokhov. A sculptural composition. 1984.
Sculptor: Anatoliy Andreyevich Sknarin (1940), the Honoured Artist of  the RSFSR (Rostov-on-Don).
Material: metal.
Size: 40x42x68 sm.
The work was honoured with the Diploma of the Soviet of Ministers of Russia and the Board of the Union of Artists. It is kept in the collection of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve, Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, the Rostov Region. Entered in 1988.

A posthumous mask of M.A. Sholokhov. 1984.
Sculptor: Nikolay Vasiliyevich Mozhayev (1928), the Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Material: gypsum.
Size: 38x26x20; 24,5x42x29 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya. Entered in 2001.

M.A. Sholokhov. A bas-relief.
Sculptor: Oleg Konstantinovich Komov (1932-1994), the People’s  Artist of Russia, the Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts.
Material: gypsum.
Size: 41x31x5 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya. Entered in 1985.

A bust of M.A. Sholokhov.
Sculptor: Nina Nikolayevna Mukhatayeva (1926).
Material: gypsum.
Size: 73x67x27 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya. Entered  in 1988.

A bust of M.A. Sholokhov
Sculptor: Anatoliy Semyonovich Novikov (1926), the Honoured Artist of Russia.
Material: wood.
Size: 100x45x60 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve, Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya. Entered  in 1988.

M.A. Sholokhov. A bust.
Sculptor: Nikolay Vasiliyevich Mozhayev (1928), the Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Material: gypsum.
Size: 114x85x49 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya. Entered in 1994.

A monument to M.A. Sholokhov (Rostov-on-Don).
Sculptor: Nikolay Vasiliyevich Mozhayev (1928), the Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Material: concrete, metal (copper).
Sizes: the height is 3 m, the height of the pedestal is 1m.
The figure of the writer is full-sized. The monument was put up in May of 2000 in Rostov-on-Don, at the Don River embankment, in commemoration of the 95^th anniversary of M.A. Sholokhov.

A monument to M.A. Sholokhov (Moscow)
Sculptors: Vladimir Vladimirovich Glebov, the Honoured Worker of Arts of Russia, the Sholokhov Prize winner, Yuriy Vladimirovich Dryomin, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Material: granite.
Sizes: the height is 4 m, the ground is 8,4x8,3 m.
The monument opening ceremony was held on November, 30, 2001, at the crossing of Volzhskiy Boulevard and Volgograd Prospect of Moscow.

A monument to M.A. Sholokhov (Uralsk, Kazakhstan).
Sculptor: Esken Amanzholovich Serghebayev (1940), the laureate of the State Prize of the Kazakhstan SSR (1982).
Material: grey granite.
Sizes: the height of the bust is 60 sm, the height of the pedestal is 2 m.
For long years the writer had been closely connected with Kazakhstan, he often visited Uralsk, Dariyinskoye Settlement. Here he had his rest, worked over his books, and it was in Kazakhstan, where M.A. Sholokhov learned about his awarding the Nobel Prize.
To commemorate these events the bust of M.A. Sholokhov  was put up in a town of Uralsk, the West-Kazakhstan Region, on August, 27, 2002.

A monument to M.A. Sholokhov (Nikolayevsk, the Volgograd Region).
Sculptor: Anatoliy Alexeyevich Lunin (1960) (Moscow).
Material: metal (bronze), granite.
Sizes: the height of the figure is 1 m 16 sm; the height of the pedestal is 1 m 20 sm;
The front of the pedestal bears a tablet: “Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov”. On the right and left of it there are relief pictures of the same type showing a horse Cossack stream. A bronze perimeter framing is concluded with a tablet bearing: “A sculptural composition is set up by a Group of companies “Grenadiers” (General director V.I. Gavrilov). May, 2005”.
The monument to the writer near his House-Museum and a commemorative tablet on its façade were opened in Nikolayevsk on May, 24, 2005.

A monument to M.A. Sholokhov (Boguchar, the Voronezh Region).
Sculptor: Anatoliy Mikhailovich Dementiyev (1938), (Rostov-on-Don).
Architect: Vladimir Ivanovich Salazkin (Voronezh).
Material: concrete, metal (copper), granite.
Sizes: the height of the bust is 1 m; the height of the pedestal is 1,8 m.
The bust is made of concrete faced with red copper. The pedestal is made of concrete faced with red granite.
The bust was put up in the central Sholokhov alley of the city park. Its opening ceremony was held on September, 20, 2005.
Partly the means for the monument were gathered by the boarding school children, who worked in agricultural teams.

M.A. Sholokhov. A bust.
Sculptor: Anatoliy Alexeyevich Lunin (1960), the Member of the Artists’ Union of Russia (Moscow).
Material: gypsum.
Size: 54x57x30 sm.
It is kept in the collection of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya. Entered in 2006.

A monument to M.A. Sholokhov (Moscow).
Sculptors: Iulian Mitrofanovich Rukavishnikov (1922-2000), the People’s Artist of the USSR; Alexander Iulianovich Rukavishnikov (1950).
Co-author: Filipp Alexandrovich Rukavishnikov (1974), the People’s Artist of Russia.
Architector: Igor Nikolayevich Voskresenskiy (1945), the academician of the International Academy of Architecture.
Material: metal (bronze), granite.
Size: 1,5-full-size.
The monument is made of bronze. The pedestal, paving and bench are made of granite. It is put up in the north-eastern part of Gogol Boulevard. The opening ceremony was held on May, 24, 2007, on the day of commemoration the 102^nd anniversary of the writer.

A monument to M.A. Sholokhov (Millerovo, the Rostov Region).
Sculptor: Nikolay Vasiliyevich Mozhayev (1928), the Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the Sholokhov Prize winner.
Material: concrete, metal (copper).
Size: 1,3-full-size.
The monument was put up in the alley of the Third International Street. The opening ceremony was held in the autumn of 2007, on September, 29, on the     Town Day holiday. M.A. Sholokhov is shown in full figure.

Valentina Leonova