Novodevichy Cemetery
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'''Novodevichy Cemetery''' (Новодевичье кла́дбище, 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.
. Unknown vandals broke the nose from the face of the monument, probably as an attempt to strike at her husband, Joseph Stalin. The monument is still visible, although it is now roped off and surrounded by a yellow protective tent.]]
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.
Some of the other List of famous Russians|famous Russians buried there are:
Pavel Belyayev, (1925–1970), cosmonaut
Georgi Beregovoi, (1921–1995), cosmonaut
Sergei Bondarchuk, (1920–1994), actor/director
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), 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
Sergey Obraztsov, (1901-1992), puppeteer
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
Lidiya Ruslanova, (1900-1973), folk singer
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
See also
List of famous cemeteries|List of other famous cemeteries
External links
http://northstargallery.com/pages/NovaGal1.htm
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