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Novodevichy Cemetery (Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow
Moscow

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, Russia
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, situated next to the World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent
Novodevichy Convent

Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery is probably the best-known cloister of Moscow. Its name, sometimes translated as the New Maidens' Monastery, was devised to differ from Ascension Convent in the Moscow Kremlin....
, which is the city's third most popular tourist site. It should not be confused with the Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)

Novodevichy Cemetery in Saint Petersburg is a historic cemetery in the South-West part of the city near the Moscow Triumphal Gate. The cemetery is named after the historical Resurrection Convent....
 in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
.

The cemetery was inaugurated in 1898, when it was judged that there were too many burials within monastery walls.






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Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery (Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, situated next to the World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent
Novodevichy Convent

Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery is probably the best-known cloister of Moscow. Its name, sometimes translated as the New Maidens' Monastery, was devised to differ from Ascension Convent in the Moscow Kremlin....
, which is the city's third most popular tourist site. It should not be confused with the Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)

Novodevichy Cemetery in Saint Petersburg is a historic cemetery in the South-West part of the city near the Moscow Triumphal Gate. The cemetery is named after the historical Resurrection Convent....
 in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
.

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, musicians, 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.

Under Soviet rule, burial in the Novodevichy Cemetery was second in prestige only to burial in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Kremlin Wall Necropolis

The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is a part of the Kremlin Wall in Moscow overlooking the Red Square. Soviet governments buried many prominent local and international Communism figures here....
. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin Wall is no longer used for burials and the Novodevichy Cemetery is used for only the most symbolically significant burials. For example, in April 2007, within one week both the first President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Yeltsin came to power with a wave of high expectations....
 and world renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire , , known to close friends as ?Slava,? was a Russians cellist and conducting....
 were buried there.

In 2001 there was an attempt to move ballerina Anna Pavlova's remains to the Novodevichy Cemetery in accordance with her requests and after considerable controversy.

Monuments


Sculptors

The work of these sculptors, among others, can be found at Novodevichy Cemetery:
  • Sergey Konenkov
    Sergey Konenkov

    Sergey Timofeyevich Konenkov was a famous Russian and Soviet sculptor. He was often called "the Russian Auguste Rodin".Born into a poor peasant family, Sergey Konenkov studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and at the St....
     (1874–1971)
  • Vera Mukhina
    Vera Mukhina

    Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina was a prominent Soviet sculptor.She was born in Riga into a wealthy merchant family, she lived at Turgeneva st. 23/25....
     (1889–1953)
  • Ernst Neizvestny
    Ernst Neizvestny

    Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny is a famous Russian-Jewish sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Ironically, his surname translates to "unknown" or "not famous" in English....
     (b. 1925)
  • Ivan Shadr
    Ivan Shadr

    Ivan Shadr , pseudonym of Ivan Dmitriyevich Ivanov was a Russian/Soviet sculpture who took his pseudonym after his hometown of Shadrinsk....
     (1887–1941)
  • Yevgeny Vuchetich
    Yevgeny Vuchetich

    Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich was a prominent sculpture and artist of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor , People's Artist of the USSR , known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style....
     (1908–1974)


See also

  • Burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery
    Burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery

    Notable burials: A-C *Sergey Afanasyev , first Soviet space industry minister*Ivan Agayants , a KGB officer and foreign spy*Sergei Aksakov , a writer...
  • Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
    Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)

    Novodevichy Cemetery in Saint Petersburg is a historic cemetery in the South-West part of the city near the Moscow Triumphal Gate. The cemetery is named after the historical Resurrection Convent....
  • Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
    Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery

    Sainte-Genevi?ve-des-Bois Cemetery, specifically the one known as Cimeti?re de Liers, as there are two cemeteries in the city, is a Russian Orthodox Church cemetery, located on Rue L?o Lagrange in Sainte-Genevi?ve-des-Bois, Essonne, d?partement in France Essonne, France....


External links

  • (in Russian) – article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
    Great Soviet Encyclopedia

    The Great Soviet Encyclopedia is one of the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedias in Russian, issued by the Sovetskaya entsiklopediya state publisher....