Novodevichy Cemetery

Novodevichy Cemetery in winter

Grave of Anton Chekhov

Nikita Khrushchev's grave at the Novodevichy Cemetery was designed by Ernst Neizvestny, a sculptor he had denounced for promoting "degenerate art".

The monument of Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, under protective tent. Unknown vandals broke the nose from the face of the monument.

Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) 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. It should not be confused with an eponymous cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

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, 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.

Notable burials: A,B,C

*Ivan Agayants (1911–1968), a KGB officer and foreign spy
*Sergei Aksakov (1791–1859), a writer
*Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin (1901–1932), wife of Joseph Stalin
*Daniil Andreev (1906–1959), a writer
*Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), a writer
*Andrei Bely (1880–1934), a writer
*Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970), a cosmonaut
*Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995), a cosmonaut
*Mark Bernes (1911–1969), an actor and singer
*Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich (1873–1955), a writer
*Sergei Bondarchuk (1920–1994), an actor and director
*Artyom Borovik (1960–2000), a journalist and businessman
*Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), a writer
*Mikhail Bulgakov (1881–1940), a playwright and author
*Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), a statesman
*Nikolai Burdenko (1876–1946), a neurosurgeon
*Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990), a Nobel laureate in Physics
*Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906–1945), a General of the Army
*Fyodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), an opera singer
*Georgi Chicherin (1872–1936), a statesman

Notable burials: D�"G

*Kuzma Derevyanko (1904–1954), an army general
*Alexander Deyneka (1899–1969), a painter and sculptor
*Lev Dovator (1903–1941), an Army general
*Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), a composer and conductor
*Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), a writer
*G. El-Registan (1899–1945), a poet
*Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), a film director
*Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956), a writer
*Dmitri Furmanov (1891–1926), a writer
*Ekaterina Furtseva (1910–1974), a politician
*Sergei Gerasimov (1906–1985), a film director
*Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), a composer
*Valentin Glushko (1908–1989), a spacecraft and rockets designer
*Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), a writer
*Raisa Gorbachev (1932–1999), a former "First Lady" of the Soviet Union
*Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), a politician

Notable burials: I, K

*Ilya Ilf (1897–1937), a writer
*Sergey Ilyushin (1894–1977), aircraft designer
*Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–1987), a composer
*Lazar Kaganovich (1892–1991), a politician
*Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), a Nobel prize winning economist
*Lev Kassil (1905–1970), a writer
*Valentin Kataev (1897–1986), a writer
*Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), a poet
*Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), a politician
*Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), a violin virtuoso
*Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), a politician
*Pavel Korin (1892–1967), a Russian painter and art restorer
*Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), a heroic partisan
*Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976), an army general
*Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944),the knapsack parachute inventor
*Ivan Kozhedub (1920–1991), an air force general
*Ivan Kozlovsky (1900–1993), an opera singer
*Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russia's foremost anarchist

Notable burials: L�"O

*Lev Landau (1908–1968), a Nobel laureate in Physics
*Alexander Lebed (1950–2002), an army general and politician
*Sergei Lebedev (1902–1974), a compuer pioneer
*Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), an actor
*Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), a painter
*Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951), a politician
*Samuil Marshak (1887–1964), a writer, translator and children's poet
*Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), a poet
*Alexei Maresiev (1916–2001), a flying ace
*Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978), a politician
*Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986), a politician
*Kirill Moskalenko (1902–1985), a former commander of Strategic Rocket Forces
*Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), a theater director
*Yuri Nikulin (1921–1997), a clown and actor
*Sergey Obraztsov (1901–1992), a puppeteer
*Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956), a geologist, geographer and explorer
*Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), a writer
*David Oistrakh (1908–1974), a violin virtuoso
*Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936), a writer
*Aleksandr Oparin (1894–1980), a scientist

Notable burials: P, R

*Ivan Panfilov (1892–1941), an army general
*Anatoli Papanov (1922–1987), an actor
*Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951), a poet and jazz musician
*Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974), a female sniper
*Ivan Petrov (1896–1958), an army general
*Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983), a politician
*Boris Polevoy (1908–1981), a writer
*Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin (1913–1985), an Air Force marshal
*Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), a composer
*Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), a stand up comedian
*Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), a pianist
*Mikhail Romm (1901–1971), a film director
*Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881), a Russian pianist and composer
*Lidiya Ruslanova (1900–1973), a folk singer

Notable burials: S

*Alexander Saburov (1908–1974), an army general and politician
*Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), a scientist
*Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), a composer
*Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), a composer
*Nikolai Semashko (1874–1949), a politician
*Yuri Senkevich (1937–2003), an explorer
*Valentin Serov (1865–1911), a writer and artist
*Alexey Shchusev (1873–1949), an architect
*Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), a composer
*Dmitri Shepilov (1905–1995), a politician
*Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), a composer
*Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939), a civil engineer
*Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974), a writer and actor
*Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925–1994), an actor
*Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), a philosopher
*Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938), a theater director
*Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov (1903–1964), a poet

Notable burials: T�"Z

*Viktor Talalikhin (1918–1941), a heroic army lieutenant
*Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915), a composer
*Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953), a painter and architect
*Vasily Tikhomirov (1876–1956), a choreographer
*Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997), a politician
*Gherman Titov (1935–2000), a cosmonaut, second man in space
*Aleksey Tolstoy (1882–1945), a writer
*Pavel Tretyakov (1832–1898), a businessman and art collector
*Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972), an aircraft designer
*Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971), a writer
*Galina Ulanova (1909–1998), a prima ballerina
*Vasili Ulrikh (1889–1951), a military judge
*Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883–1922), a theater director
*Sergey Vavilov (1891–1951), a physicist
*Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), a mineralogist and a geochemist
*Ivan Vinogradov (1891–1983), a mathematician
*Nikolay Zelinskiy (1861–1953), a chemist
*Georgiy Zhzhonov (1915–2005), an actor

Sculptors

The work 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)

See also

* Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
* List of other famous cemeteries

External links

* Photographs
* More photographs
* Novodevichy Cemetery (in Russian) �" article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia