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Entries / The Tsarskoselskoye Brotherhood Cemetery of Heroes of the First World War of 1914-1918

The Tsarskoselskoye Brotherhood Cemetery of Heroes of the First World War of 1914-1918


Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/The Pantheon of military glory/Historic Burials in the Kazanskoye Cemetery/The heroes of the First World War (1914 - 1918).

A new official brotherhood cemetery of soldiers who died in the First World War was established by order of the Emperor Nikolay the Second in 1914.
The brotherhood cemetery came to be called the Cemetery of Heroes and the First Brotherhood Cemetery of Russia. A temporary wooden Assuage My Sorrows Church of the Mother of God was designed by engineer S.Y. Sidorchuk and was constructed in the territory of the cemetery.
In 2008, a memorial complex was designed and a granite crossshaped monument was erected and consecrated. The model of the memorial complex was approved by Metropolitan Vladimir of St. Petersburg and Ladoga. The authors of the memorial complex and the cross-shaped monument are V.I. Mukhin, M.A. Bunin, and Y.V. Zatykin. The monument church was designed by architect S.N. Antonov.

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Kazanskoe Cemetery