Kazanskoe Cemetery

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KAZANSKOE CEMETERY. Cemetery in the town of Pushkin (1 Gusarskaya Street). The area consists of 35 hectares. It has existed from 1785. It is named after the Kazan Church and Burial Vault (1785-1790), built over the crypt of A.D. Lanskoy (1758-1784), who held the favour of Empress Catherine II. The mausoleum, bell tower and gates at the fence have all survived. To the South of the Orthodox Kazanskoe Cemetery sections for other denominations are situated, including the Lutheran, Muslim, and Jewish sections, which were later united. In 1914-1916, the Communal Cemetery for Soldiers was arranged in the cemetery"s northwest section (not preserved). Common graves and graves of participants of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 were placed in the eastern part. The high Yuryevsky Princes family crypt has survived (1879, Y.F. Bruni), as has the Orlov-Davydov Counts rotunda-mausoleum (1910, A.A. Grubbe). Also buried at Kazanskoe cemetery are the poet I.F. Annensky, artist P.P. Chistyakov, Lithuanian poet Y. Yanonis (tomb stone by sculptor B. Vishnyauskas, 1963), writers O.D. Forsch, A.R. Belyaev, S.M. Alyansky, T.G. Gnedich, T.K. Galushko, and M.P. Rudenskaya (historian of the Pushkin Lyceum Museum), cameraman A.N. Moskvin, and artist O.N. Gildebrand-Arbenina.

References: Пирютко Ю. М. Царскосельский некрополь // Петербургские чтения-96. СПб., 1996. С. 278-280; Казанское кладбище в Царском Селе/Сост.: А. Ю. Егоров, Н. А. Давыдова. СПб., 2003.

Y. M. Piryutko. Alyansky Samuil Mironovich
Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich
Belyaev Alexander Romanovich
Bruni Yuly Fedorovich
Catherine II, Empress
Chistyakov Pavel Petrovich
Forsh Olga Dmitrievna
Galushko Tatyana Konstantinovna
Gildebrand-Arbenina Olga Nikolaevna
Gnedich Tatyana Grigorievna
Grube Artur Alexandrovich
Lanskoy Alexander Dmitrievich
Moskvin Andrey Nikolaevich
Rudenskaya Marina Petrovna
the Orlov-Davydovs
the Yuryevskys, Dukes
Vishnyauskas Bronyus Danelyaus
Yanonis Yulyus
Gusarskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 1
Пирютко Ю. М. Царскосельский некрополь // Петербургские чтения-96. СПб., 1996