Stolen Nose!

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

I thought many would appreciate this tidbit, especially those
teaching Gogol this semester:

http://www.gazeta.ru/kz/more_culture.shtml

Gazeta.ru reports that the monument to Major Kovalyov's nose, put up
on St. Petersburg's Voznesensky Prospect (where Gogol's chater
Kovalyov lived) in St. Petersburg in 1995, has been stolen.

Kovalyov's nose has disappeared again! Maybe it's in Kazan Cathedral.
Or maybe it's on its way out of the country with a forged passport?

Police believe that the disappearance is a theft commissioned by a
Gogol fan or a lover of sculpture because the monument itself has
little monetary value.

(Please note the URL is of the type that suggests to me that it is a
feature that changes daily and may not be available tomorrow.
However, I have translated all the information in the article here -
there's no other information in the piece at this URL.)

With best wishes to all,

Ben Rifkin

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Benjamin Rifkin

Professor of Slavic Languages, Slavic Dept., UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706 USA
voice: 608/262-1623; fax: 608/265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic/rifkin/

Director of the Russian School
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT  05753
voice:  802/443-5533; fax: 802/443-5394
http://www.middlebury.edu/~ls/russian/

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