Novodevichy Cemetery (Moscow)
Novodevichy Cemetery (Russian: Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the World Heritage Site, the 16th-century en:Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site. It should not be confused with the Novodevichy Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.
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GalleryEdit
Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin (1)
Mikhail Bulgakov Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, Ukrainian: Михайло Опанасович Булгаков) was a Russian-language novelist and playwright. His grave incorporates a stone taken from Nikolai Gogol's grave during his 1931 reburial.
Grave of Anton Chekhov(Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов,) was a Russian short story writer and playwright.
grave of Boris Yeltsin
SculptorsEdit
Works of these sculptors, among others, can be found at Novodevichy Cemetery:
- Sergey Konenkov (1874–1971)
- Vera Mukhina (1889–1953)
- Ernst Neizvestny (b. 1925)
- Ivan Shadr (1887–1941)
- Yevgeny Vuchetich (1908–1974)