Новодевичье кладбище

Features Новодевичье кладбище

Novodevichy Cemetery is not just a burial place for famous people.
This is history embodied in stone and granite.
A guide to the Novodevichy cemetery will allow you to search by name, alphabet and occupation of people.Novodevichy Cemetery - a cemetery in Moscows Khamovniki at the Novodevichy Convent.
Founded at the Novodevichy Convent, built in 1524.
The official age of the cemetery dates back to 1904.The modern territory of the cemetery is divided into three parts: the old (sections 1–4), the new (sections 5–8) and the newest (sections 9–11).
The total area of ​​the cemetery exceeds 7.5 hectares.
About 26 thousand people are buried on it.
In the second half of the 1970s.
a branch appeared near the cemetery - the Kuntsevo cemetery.
It is part of the Moscow State Budgetary Institution "Ritual".The first burials on the territory of the Novodevichy Convent appeared in the 16th century.
At first, novices and nuns were buried, over time, representatives of princely, boyar and royal families began to be buried.
One of the earliest surviving graves is located under the Smolensk Cathedral, in which Princess Irina Zakharyina-Yuryeva was buried in 1533.
In the tomb, located in the basement of the monastery cathedral, the young daughter of Ivan the Terrible Anna, his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, daughters of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, sisters of Peter I Tsarevna Sofya (nun Susanna), Evdokia and Ekaterina Miloslavsky, the first wife of Peter I - Evdokia Lopukhina (monastic Elena), are buried here, the families of princes Obolensky and boyar Bogdan Khitro are also buried here in.The first popularly revered burial place at Novodevichy belongs to the poet and partisan of the Patriotic War of 1812, Denis Davydov.By the middle of the 19th century, the graves of merchants and intellectuals appeared in the cemetery, and it became the most significant necropolis of "persons of an academic rank" in Moscow.
Burial places in the Novodevichy Cemetery were expensive.
For example, in the late XIX - early XX centuries, a plot of the first category cost up to a thousand rubles, the second - up to five hundred rubles, the third - up to three hundred.