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# Sculptor Alexander Burganov and his statue of the Marquis de Sade at Lacoste castle in Provence
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kak-u-khamovnichanina-imia-skulptora-aleksandra-burganova-u-menia-vyzyvaet-protivorechivye-chuvstva-vspominaetsia-ego-nesuraznaia-masterskaia-v-pereulkakh-prechistenki-no-i-s-drugoi-sto/
- Published: 2020-09-05T08:57:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:09:33.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Art, Cinema, Moscow, Observations, Heritage

As a native of Khamovniki, I find the name of the sculptor Alexander Burganov stirs mixed feelings in me: I recall his ungainly studio in the lanes off Prechistenka, but also, on the other hand, some of his remarkable works. Several of them adorn the ruined château of Lacoste in Provence, once the property of the Marquis de Sade and for some years now being restored by its new owner, Pierre Cardin. Burganov's best-known work in the West is, in fact, the surrealist statue of the Marquis de Sade: a pair of enormous crossed golden hands and a head in a cage, a rather transparent metaphor for creative unfreedom, censorship, punishments and, of course, the imprisonment that fell to de Sade's lot for the eroticism and unconventionality of his writings, but also, naturally, for his philosophising on the true order of society, divisible only into masters and slaves, and so forth. Yet to the torments Donatien Alphonse François de Sade suffered in his lifetime one may add his posthumous screen incarnation by Geoffrey Rush in the 2000 biographical film *Quills*