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 Novodevichy_leto.jpg 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
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