PHOTO:EAST NEWS/OLEG ZHARII Ukraina. Poltawa. Znak memorialowy ukrainskiego pisarza Mikoly Gogola Ukraine. Poltava. Memorial sign to Ukrainian writer Mykola Gogol.

PHOTO:EAST NEWS/OLEG ZHARII Ukraina. Poltawa. Znak memorialowy ukrainskiego pisarza Mikoly Gogola Ukraine. Poltava. Memorial sign to Ukrainian writer Mykola Gogol.

Pravda, the Soviet Communist party newspaper, carried this cartoon Tuesday, October 14, 1969 of the three orbiting Soviet spaceships likening them to the famous Russian troika. Nikolai Gogol, the 19th Century Russian poet, is shown with his poetic tribute to a troika's speed --

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/ADOC PHOTOS NikolaA? Vassilievitch Gogol (1809-1852), ??crivain russe. Vers 1840. Reproduction photograhique d'aprA?s une gravure. ===== Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1809-1852), russian writer. Ca. 1840. =====