7 famous necropolises of St. Petersburg
Necropolises and cemeteries can affect not only representatives of different subcultures.
Some tombstones are real works of art, and the necropolises themselves are often the resting places of legendary people.
So sometimes it's a good idea to take a quiet walk in a certain poetic mood. Komarovsky necropolis
Anna Akhmatova is buried in the cemetery, to which the road leads from the Gulf of Finland and the village of Komarovo itself.
In general, here you can read the names on the tombstones and find out from them who were part of the creative and scientific intelligentsia of the last century. — Leningrad region, district.
Resort Piskarevskoye Cemetery
Victims of the siege of Leningrad are buried at the Piskarevskoye cemetery, in front of the entrance there is a memorial to the soldiers who fell on the Leningrad Front.
Not far away there is a museum where you can see the famous diary of Tanya Savicheva, the lines from which about the horror of the blockade were spread throughout the world. Smolensk Cemetery
The large cemetery on the banks of Smolenka, on Vasilyevsky Island, was officially established back in 1738.
But they were buried in these places even earlier - during the construction of St. Petersburg, workers who could not withstand the hard labor conditions found their last refuge here. Lazarevskoye Cemetery
The Lazarevskoye cemetery, which appeared at the beginning of the 18th century simultaneously with the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (on the territory of which it is located), literally turned into a museum.
The thing is that many of the tombstones were created by famous artists and sculptors - while walking here, look carefully around. Theological Cemetery
The cemetery in the north of the city is known primarily because it is here that Viktor Tsoi is buried.
However, a place for burials was allocated on this site back in 1841, and during the war many city residents who died during the siege were buried here. Literary Bridges
The name of this necropolis speaks for itself: walking along the Literary Bridges, you can come across the graves of Belinsky, Turgenev, Kuprin, Leskov and many other writers, poets and literary critics.
Preobrazhenskoe Jewish Cemetery
People of different nationalities and different religions have always coexisted in St. Petersburg, which is why not only Orthodox necropolises can be found here. For example, not far from the Proletarskaya metro station there is a Jewish cemetery. It is interesting for its tombstones - many of them are real masterpieces.
So sometimes it's a good idea to take a quiet walk in a certain poetic mood. Komarovsky necropolis
Anna Akhmatova is buried in the cemetery, to which the road leads from the Gulf of Finland and the village of Komarovo itself.
In general, here you can read the names on the tombstones and find out from them who were part of the creative and scientific intelligentsia of the last century. — Leningrad region, district.
Resort Piskarevskoye Cemetery
Victims of the siege of Leningrad are buried at the Piskarevskoye cemetery, in front of the entrance there is a memorial to the soldiers who fell on the Leningrad Front.
Not far away there is a museum where you can see the famous diary of Tanya Savicheva, the lines from which about the horror of the blockade were spread throughout the world. Smolensk Cemetery
The large cemetery on the banks of Smolenka, on Vasilyevsky Island, was officially established back in 1738.
But they were buried in these places even earlier - during the construction of St. Petersburg, workers who could not withstand the hard labor conditions found their last refuge here. Lazarevskoye Cemetery
The Lazarevskoye cemetery, which appeared at the beginning of the 18th century simultaneously with the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (on the territory of which it is located), literally turned into a museum.
The thing is that many of the tombstones were created by famous artists and sculptors - while walking here, look carefully around. Theological Cemetery
The cemetery in the north of the city is known primarily because it is here that Viktor Tsoi is buried.
However, a place for burials was allocated on this site back in 1841, and during the war many city residents who died during the siege were buried here. Literary Bridges
The name of this necropolis speaks for itself: walking along the Literary Bridges, you can come across the graves of Belinsky, Turgenev, Kuprin, Leskov and many other writers, poets and literary critics.
Preobrazhenskoe Jewish Cemetery
People of different nationalities and different religions have always coexisted in St. Petersburg, which is why not only Orthodox necropolises can be found here. For example, not far from the Proletarskaya metro station there is a Jewish cemetery. It is interesting for its tombstones - many of them are real masterpieces.