English: 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.
Русский: Картина, находящаяся в Третьяковской галерее, является авторским повторением портрета, написанного для матери писателя, в 1841 году, в Риме. Оригинальный портрет находился в усадьбе Н.В. Гоголя «Васильевка», затем – у сестры писателя А.В. Гоголь, в Полтаве. В 1919 С.Н. Быкова, внучатая племянница Николая Гоголя, передала портрет в Полтавский историко-краеведческий музей, где он находился до 1941 года. Во время Великой Отечественной войны картина была утеряна.
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