The nose of Major Kovalev can be called the most unusual monument in Saint Petersburg. In the northern capital, there are monuments dedicated to animals - cats and dogs, birds and horses. Monuments have been created for people of various professions - street sweepers and policemen, lamplighters and photographers, and there are sculptures of literary heroes - Ostap Bender and The Little Prince. The character from N.V. Gogol’s novella - Major Kovalev’s Nose - is commemorated in three monuments in the city on the Neva. Major Kovalev’s nose was installed in 1995 on the facade of building number 11 on Voznesensky Prospect. The monument is a bas-relief depicting a nose, the prototype for which was the olfactory organ of the literary hero of Gogol’s novella, simply titled “The Nose.” It is known that Major Kovalev’s nose had a habit of leaving its owner and freely roaming the city. In the story, on March 25, 1836, the barber Ivan Yakovlevich finds a nose in his bread during breakfast, the nose of the collegiate assessor Kovalev, whom he shaved every Wednesday and Sunday, then wraps the nose in a rag and throws it into the water from the Isaac Bridge. The district policeman returned the nose to the major and left. When Kovalev’s joy subsided, he discovered that the nose did not want to reattach to its proper place. The major then sent a servant for a doctor, who lived in the same house.   Address and how to get there Saint Petersburg, Voznesensky Prospect, number 36 Get to the metro station “Sadovaya”, "Sennaya Ploshchad" or "Spasskaya". Then walk along Sadovaya Street until the intersection with Rimsky-Korsakov Prospect. Turn left and go to the intersection with Voznesensky Prospect.