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Tikhvin Cemetery (?????????? ????????) is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, 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....
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Russia

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Established in 1823, some of the notables buried here are:






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Tikhvin Cemetery (?????????? ????????) is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, 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....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
.

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Established in 1823, some of the notables buried here are:
  • Mily Balakirev
    Mily Balakirev

    Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev was a Russian pianist, Conducting and composer. He is known today primarily for his work promoting nationalism in Russian music....
     - (1836-1910), composer
  • Alexander Borodin
    Alexander Borodin

    Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian composer of Georgian people-Russian people parentage who made his living as a notable chemistry. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music....
      - (1833-1887), composer
  • César Cui
    César Cui

    C?sar Antonovich Cui was a Russian of France and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army Officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and Music journalism; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five, the group of Russian com...
     - (1835-1918), composer
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky "An Honest Thief"* "Elka i svad'ba" ; English translation: "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"* Belye nochi ; English translation: White Nights ...
      - (1821-1881), author
  • Mikhail Glinka
    Mikhail Glinka

    Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian people composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music....
      - (1804-1857), composer
  • Vera Komissarzhevskaya
    Vera Komissarzhevskaya

    Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya was the most celebrated Russian actress at the turn of the twentieth century. Vera Komissarzhevskaya was the daughter of Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, a high-profile tenor of the Mariinsky Theatre, and sister of Theodore Komisarjevsky, a famous theatrical director....
     (1864-1910), actress
  • Ivan Krylov
    Ivan Krylov

    Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best known Fable. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine, later fables were original work....
      - (1769-1844), author
  • Modest Mussorgsky
    Modest Mussorgsky

    Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky , one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Music of Russia. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music....
     - (1839-1881), composer
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
      - (1844-1908), composer
  • Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Rubinstein

    Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and Conducting. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos....
     - (1835 - 1881), pianist, conductor and composer
  • Anatoly Sobchak
    Anatoly Sobchak

    Anatoly Alexandrovich Sobchak was a Russian politician, a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the first democratically-elected mayor of Saint Petersburg, and a mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev....
     - (1937 - 2000), first Mayor of Saint Petersburg
  • Fyodor Stravinsky
    Fyodor Stravinsky

    Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky , - ) was a Russian-Ukrainians basso opera singer and actor. He was the father of Igor Stravinsky and the grandfather of Soulima Stravinsky....
     - 1843 - 1902, opera
    Opera

    Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
    tic bass, father of composer Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
      - (1840-1893), composer


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