Novodevichy Cemetery

Novodevichy Cemetery (??????????? ?????????, Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the World Heritage Site, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site. See "Novodevichy Convent" for the origins of the name.

Related Topics:
Moscow, Russia - World Heritage Site - 16th-century - Novodevichy Convent

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The cemetery was inaugurated in 1898, when it was judged that there were too many burials within monastery walls. One of the first notables to be buried there was Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, whose gilded tomb is the work of Fyodor Shekhtel. Today, the cemetery holds the tombs of Russian authors, playwrights, and poets, as well as famous actors, political leaders, and scientists. More than 27,000 are buried at Novodevichy. It has a park-like ambience, dotted with small chapels and large sculpted monuments. It is divided into an eastern and western section; maps are available at the cemetery office.

Related Topics:
1898 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Fyodor Shekhtel

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Some of the other famous Russians buried there are:

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• Pavel Belyayev, (1925–1970), cosmonaut
• Georgi Beregovoi, (1921–1995), cosmonaut
• Sergei Bondarchuk, (1920–1994), actor/director
• Boris Bruinov, (1922–1997), actor
• Valery Bryusov, (1873–1924), writer
• Mikhail Bulgakov, (1881–1940), playwright and author
• Nikolai Bulganin, (1895–1975), statesman
• Anton Chekhov, (1860–1904), writer
• Georgi Chicherin (1872–1936), statesman
• Fyodor Chaliapin, (1873–1938), opera singer
• Ilya Ehrenburg, (1891–1967), writer
• Sergei Eisenstein, (1898–1948), director
• Alexander Fadeyev, (1901–1956), writer
• Ekaterina Furtseva, (1901–1956), writer
• Nikolai Gogol, (1910–1974), politician
• Raisa Gorbachev, (1932–1999), "First Lady" of the Soviet Union
• Sergey Ilyushin, (1894–1977), aircraft designer
• Nikita Khrushchev, (1894–1971), statesman
• Peter Kropotkin, (1842–1921), Russia's foremost anarchist
• Alexander Lebed, (1950–2002), soldier and politician
• Lev Davidovich Landau, (1908–1968), Nobel laureate in Physics
• Isaac Levitan, (1860–1900), painter
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893–1930), poet
• Vyacheslav Molotov, (1890–1986), politician
• Nikolai Ogaryov, (1813–1877), writer/poet
• David Oistrakh, (1908–1974), violin virtuoso
• Aleksandr Oparin, (1894–1980), scientist
• Lyudmila Pavlichenko, female sniper
• Boris Polevoy, (1908–1981), writer
• Sergei Prokofiev, (1891–1953), composer
• Valentin Serov, (1865–1911), writer and artist
• Aleksey Schusev (1873–1949), architect
• Dmitri Shostakovich, (1906–1975), composer
• Vasily Shukshin, (1929–1974), writer, actor
• Konstantin Stanislavski, (1863–1938)
• Andrei Tupolev, (1888–1972), aircraft designer
• Vasili Ulrikh, (1889–1951), military judge
• Aleksander Zatajewicz, (1869–1936), Polish composer and ethnologist
 
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