Novodevichy Cemetery
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fr:Cimetière de Novodevitchi pl:Cmentarz Nowodziewiczy Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кла́дбище) 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.
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. As the Bolsheviks desecrated other monasteries in Moscow, the notables interred there (i.e., Nikolai Gogol) were being reburied at the Novodevichy. 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.Missing image
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The New Maidens' Convent gives its name to the cemetery adjacent to its walls.
Some of the famous Russians buried there are:
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, (1902–1932), "First Lady" of the Soviet Union
- 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
- Alexander Fadeyev, (1901–1956), writer
- Nikolai Gogol, (1809–1852), writer
- 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
- 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
See also
External links
- Photographs (http://northstargallery.com/pages/NovaGal1.htm)