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BLAGOVESCHENSKAYA (HOLY ANNUNCIATION) BURIAL VAULT (Holy Annunciation Burial Vault), the oldest stone chapel-monument of St. Petersburg, part of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Ensemble
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Cemeteries (entry)
CEMETERIES. Even before the foundation of St. Petersburg there were several necropolises on the location of the future city: the records of the beginning of the 18th century indicate a Finnish-Swedish cemetery at Elagin (Aptekarsky) Island
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Lazarevskaya Burial Vault
LAZAREVSKAYA BURIAL VAULT, St. Lazarus’ Church within the ensemble of Alexander Nevsky Lavra. A small stone church (so-called tent) was built in 1717 behind the altar of the Holy Annunciation Church for the burial of Natalia Alexeevna (in 1723
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Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis
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
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Memorial plaques (general article)
MEMORIAL PLAQUES. Memorial inscriptions in stone and metal first appeared in St. Petersburg as early as the 18h century. On the descents leading to the Neva River
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Monumental Propoganda Plan (monuments)
MONUMENTAL PROPAGANDA PLAN was ratified on 12 April 1918 by the Council of People's Commissars decree on the "removal of monuments, erected in honour of tsars and their servants and the elaboration of monuments of Russian Socialist Revolution" (On
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Necropolis of Artists
NECROPOLIS OF ARTISTS (in 1823-76, the New Lazarevskoe Cemetary; in 1876-1937, the Tikhvinskoe Cemetery). Memorial Necropolis Park included in 1937 in the City Sculpture Museum. Its square takes up 1.2 hectares
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Necropolis of the18th Century
NECROPOLIS OF THE 18TH CENTURY (before 1939, the Lazarevskoe Cemetery), memorial necropolis, part of the City Sculpture Museum (from 1932) on the territory of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Its square takes up 0.7 hectares
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Smolenskoe Cemeteries
SMOLENSKOE CEMETERIES. Located on Vasilievsky and Dekabristov islands, along both banks of the Smolenka River. The Orthodox Smolenskoe Cemetery (24 Kamskaya Street) is located on the left bank of the Smolenka River on an area of 51.7 hectares
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Uspensky N.V. (1885-1947), founder of the Necropolis Museum
USPENSKY Nikolay Viktorovich (1885-1947), museum worker. He studied at the Higher Phototechnical Institute in the 1920s and worked as a researcher at the Russian Museum from 1926 to 1932. He was a member of Stary Petersburg Society
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