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Donskoe Cemetery
The New Donskoy Cemetery (Новое Донское кладбище) is a 20th-century necropolis sprawling to the south from the Donskoy Monastery in the south-west of Central Moscow. It has been closed for new burials since the 1980s. History The cemetery outside the monastery walls was established in 1910, when there was no more place for new burials inside the medieval monastery. The speaker of the first Russian parliament, Sergey Muromtsev, was among the first notables to be interred there. Maria Gartung, the daughter of Alexander Pushkin who served for Leo Tolstoy as a model for Anna Karenina, was buried in 1919.http://mosritual.ru/mesta-zahoronenija/donskoe-kladbische After the Russian Revolution, scores of Soviet soldiers killed during the Battle of Moscow and people executed by NKVD were secretly buried at the Donskoy Cemetery. It is believed that the Mass graves from the era contain the remains of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Pyotr Krasnov, Vsevolod Meyerhold, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Donskoy (masculine), Donskaya (feminine), or Donskoye (neuter) may refer to: *Donskoy (surname) *Donskoy District, a district of Southern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia *Donskoy (inhabited locality) (''Donskaya'', ''Donskoye''), several inhabited localities in Russia *Donskoy Monastery, a major male monastery in Moscow, Russia **Donskoye Cemetery *Donskoye (air base), an air base in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia *Donskoy cat, a breed of mostly hairless cat See also *Dmitry Donskoy (other) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
