Alexander Nikolayevich Bourganov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Бурга́нов; Born 1935) is a Russian sculptor, a National Artist of Russia, and a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. His recent works include a monument to Alexander Pushkin located at George Washington University in Washington DC (2000); a statue of John Quincy Adams, the first U.S. Ambassador to Russia and later President of the United States, located in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (2008); and a statue of poet Walt Whitman located on the campus of Moscow State University (2009).[1] In 2001 his studio in Moscow was given the status of a State Museum, known as Bourganov's House. His other works around Moscow include a series of fountains and statues on Ukrainsky Boulvar, near the Hotel Ukraine.

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Bourganov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and was graduated from Moscow State Artistic and Industrial College (now Stroganov University). He received a PhD. in art history.[2]

In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.[3]

Chronology of the principal sculptural works of Alexander Bourganov

• Monument commemorating the 400th birthday of the city of Oryol (1966)
• "Memories of an old worker" (1968)
• Decorative relief-emblem on the Central House of Filmmakers in Moscow (1969)
• Monument "Friendship of Peoples: in honor of the 400th anniversary of the union of Udmurtia and Russia (1972)
• "Victory" statue at the Central House of Artists, Moscow (1978)
• "War and Peace", Germany (1980)
• "Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space", Expo 86, Canada (1986)
• Portraits in bas-relief of Russian artists Ilya Repin, Vasily Surikov, Karl Bryullov, Sergey Konenkov, Ivanov and Shishkin at the Tretyakovskaya Station of the Moscow Metro (1986)
• Composition with nine figures "War and Peace" (1987)
• Monument to Sophia Perovskaya, Kaluga (1987)
• Portrait of Ivan Tsvetaev for the Pushkin Museum, Moscow (1992)
• Monument to Soviet Soldiers killed in Belgium during the Second World War (1990–92)
• Monument to the poet Mikhail Lermontov, Moscow (1994)
• Monument to the writer Ivan Bunin, Voronezh (1995)
• Fountain "Princess Turandot" on Old Arbat Street (1997)
• Monument to Alexander Pushkin and Natalia Goncharova on Old Arbat Street (1999)
• Monument to Alexander Pushkin at George Washington University in Washington D.C. (2000)
• Gallery "Legendary People"; bust of great figure in world culture: Andrei Tarkovsky, Joseph Brodsky; Rudolf Nureyev, Ivan Bunin, G. Fogeler. (2000–2005).
• "The Golden Lion." (2002)
• Sculptural ensemble on Ukrainsky Boulvar in Moscow: "Allegory of Air"; "Allegory of Water"; "Forests of Ukraine"; "Fountain "Youth"; *Decorative sculpture "Friendship"; monument to E.F. Gnesina. (2005)
• Memorial plaque to S. Richter, Moscow (2005).
• Decorative bas-reliefs on the building of the Bogoliubov Library, Moscow (2005).
• Sculptural ensemble "Ecology" in the Square on Sivtsev Vrazhye (2005).
• Sculptural park 'Understanding knowledge" on the square in front of the film theater Brest in Moscow. (2005).
• Statue of John Quincy Adams in front of the U.S. Embassy Moscow (2008).
• Statue of Walt Whitman in front of the Humanities Faculty Building at Moscow State University (2009).[4]

Gallery

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  Bourganov fountain "Youth" on Ukrainsky Boulvar, Moscow (2005)

Sources and citations

External links

• Official Site of Burganov Museum in Moscow (in English)

На других языках

[de] Alexander Nikolajewitsch Burganow

[ru] Бурганов, Александр Николаевич