Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis

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LITERATORSKIE (LITERARY) MOSTKI (30 Rasstannaya Street). A museum-necropolis on the territory of the Volkovskoe Orthodox Cemetery (in the northeastern section; the square covers 7.2 hectares; see Volkovskoe Cemeteries); a branch of the Museum of Urban Sculpture. Organised in 1935, named after the board walk (first known as Nadtrubnye; from 1870s, known as the Literary Mostki). V.G. Belinsky (1848), N.A. Dobrolyubov (1861), and D.I. Pisarev (1868) are buried on the territory of the necropolis. The commemoration of these writers was protested by opposition intelligentsia and students. Among those buried at the Literatorskie Mostki are the writers N.S. Leskov, I.A. Goncharov, V.M. Garshin, L.N. Andreev, and A.I. Kuprin, poets A.N. Apukhtin, A.A. Blok, M.A. Kuzmin, M.L. Lozinsky, O.F. Bergholz, scientists and academics N.I. Kostomarov, D.I. Mendeleev, A.S. Popov, I.P. Pavlov, V.M. Bekhterev, and A.F. Ioffe, theatre figures A.Y. Vaganova, K.M. Sergeev, N.P. Akimov, L.S. Vivien, Y.V. Tolubeev, N.K. Simonov, and E.A. Lebedev, composer V.P. Solovyev-Sedoy, film director G.M. Kozintsev, artists K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, E.E. Moiseenko, M.K. Anikushin. N.K. Mikhailovsky, G.A. Lopatin, G.V. Plekhanov, and V.I. Zasulich, along with many other participants of revolutionary activity at the late 19th - early 20th centuries, are buried at Literatorskie Mostki. The Ulyanov family burial site is situated within the museum area of the necropolis (V.I. Lenin's mother, Maria Alexandrovna, his sisters Anna and Olga, as well as their son-in-law M.T. Elizarov, are all buried there). In 1930s, the remains of a number of literary, academic, and scientific figures were transferred to Literatorskie Mostki from an abolished section of the Volkovskoe Cemetery, including I.S. Turgenev and M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin. Outstanding cultural, and academic, and scientific figures are still buried at Literatorskie Mostki. The cemetery's Holy Resurrection Church (1785, architect I.E. Starov) has been used as an exhibition hall since 1952.

References: Кудрявцев А. И., Шкода Г. Н. Волковское православное кладбище и некрополь-музей Литераторские мостки // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993. С. 315-354.

Y. M. Piryutko. Akimov Nikolay Pavlovich
Andreev Leonid Nikolaevich
Anikushin Mikhail Konstantinovich
Apukhtin Alexey Nikolaevich
Bekhterev Vladimir Mikhailovich
Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich
Bergholz Olga Fedorovna
Blok G.P.
Dobrolyubov Nikolay Alexandrovich
Elizarov Mark Timofeevich
Garshin Vsevolod Mikhailovich
Goncharov Ivan Alexandrovich
Ioffe Abram Fedorovich
Kostomarov Nikolay Ivanovich
Kozintsev Grigory Mikhailovich
Kuprin Alexander Ivanovich
Kuzmin Mikhail Alexeevich
Lebedev Evgeny Alexeevich
Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
Leskov Nikolay Semenovich
Lopatin German Alexandrovich
Lozinsky Mikhail Leonidovich
Mendeleev Dmitry Ivanovich
Mikhaylovsky Nikolay Konstantinovich
Moiseenko Evsey Evseevich
Pavlov Ivan Petrovich
Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich
Pisarev Dmitry Ivanovich
Plekhanov Georgy Valentinovich
Popov A.A.
Saltykov-Shchedrin (real name Saltykov) Mikhail Evgrafovich
Sergeev Konstantin Mikhailovich
Simonov Nikolay Konstantinovich
Solovyev-Sedoy (real name Solovyev) Vasily Pavlovich
Starov Ivan Egorovich
the Ulyanovs
Tolubeev Yury Vladimirovich
Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
Ulyanova Maria Alexandrovna
Ulyanova Olga Ilyinichna
Ulyanova-Elizarova Anna Ilyinichna
Vaganova Agrippina Yakovlevna
Vivien Leonid Sergeevich
Zasulich Vera Ivanovna
Rasstannaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 30
Кудрявцев А. И., Шкода Г. Н. Волковское православное кладбище и некрополь-музей Литераторские мостки // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993 Museum of City Sculpture
Volkovskoe Cemeteries
1935