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.
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.[1]
In 1927 the former church of St. Seraphim was rebuilt to become the first crematorium in Moscow. Most of the mortal remains buried at the New Donskoy Cemetery are therefore interred in urns. The church featured extended vaults which seemed suitable to accommodate the technical equipment for the cremation of bodies. The new crematorium was opened in October 1927 and most of the individuals buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis were cremated here. Until the mid-1970s the Donskoy crematorium remained the only one of its kind in Moscow.
"Common Grave Number 1"edit
"Common Grave Number 1" at Donskoye Cemetery
In 1930, Stalinist authorities dug a large pit in the east portion of the cemetery to act as a Mass grave for the cremated ashes of executed political prisoners from Joseph Stalin's Great Purge; the site was intentionally chosen for its isolation from normal burial sites due to its "shameful" history as Eastern Orthodox consecrated ground during the Tsarist era, which the Soviets had revoked as part of state atheism in the USSR. The ashes of numerous executed prisoners, both common and high-ranking—including notorious figures such as Nikolai Yezhov, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Pavel Alexandrovich Alexandrov etc. – were unceremoniously dumped here until the grave was filled and closed in 1942. The pit currently bears two markers, one erected during the Soviet era and simply reading "Common Grave Number One: Unclaimed Ashes from 1930–42." while the other was erected after 1989 and reads "Here lie the remains of the innocent victims of political repressions in 1930–42 who were shot. To their eternal memory."[2]
donskoye, cemetery, 18th, century, 19th, century, burials, donskoy, monastery, 712144, 602275, 712144, 602275, entrance, cemetery, donskoy, cemetery, Новое, Донское, кладбище, 20th, century, necropolis, sprawling, south, from, donskoy, monastery, south, west, . For the 18th century and 19th century burials see Donskoy Monastery 55 42 44 N 37 36 08 E 55 712144 N 37 602275 E 55 712144 37 602275 Entrance to the cemetery The New Donskoy Cemetery Novoe Donskoe kladbishe 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 Contents 1 History 2 Common Grave Number 1 3 Notable burials 4 Supposed secret burials 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThe 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 1 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 1 Isaac Babel and other victims of Stalin s regime The remains of painter Valentin Serov composer Sergei Taneyev and poet Vladimir Mayakovsky were exhumed and transferred to the more prestigious Novodevichy Cemetery In 1927 the former church of St Seraphim was rebuilt to become the first crematorium in Moscow Most of the mortal remains buried at the New Donskoy Cemetery are therefore interred in urns The church featured extended vaults which seemed suitable to accommodate the technical equipment for the cremation of bodies The new crematorium was opened in October 1927 and most of the individuals buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis were cremated here Until the mid 1970s the Donskoy crematorium remained the only one of its kind in Moscow Common Grave Number 1 edit nbsp Common Grave Number 1 at Donskoye Cemetery In 1930 Stalinist authorities dug a large pit in the east portion of the cemetery to act as a Mass grave for the cremated ashes of executed political prisoners from Joseph Stalin s Great Purge the site was intentionally chosen for its isolation from normal burial sites due to its shameful history as Eastern Orthodox consecrated ground during the Tsarist era which the Soviets had revoked as part of state atheism in the USSR The ashes of numerous executed prisoners both common and high ranking including notorious figures such as Nikolai Yezhov Mikhail Tukhachevsky Pavel Alexandrovich Alexandrov etc were unceremoniously dumped here until the grave was filled and closed in 1942 The pit currently bears two markers one erected during the Soviet era and simply reading Common Grave Number One Unclaimed Ashes from 1930 42 while the other was erected after 1989 and reads Here lie the remains of the innocent victims of political repressions in 1930 42 who were shot To their eternal memory 2 Notable burials editRudolf Abel 1903 1971 Anton Denikin 1872 1947 Vladimir Fogel 1902 1929 Ivan Ilyin 1883 1954 Vladimir Pikalov 1924 2003 Vladimir Kappel 1883 1920 Lev Kopelev 1912 1997 Sergei Khudyakov 1902 1950 Solomon Mikhoels 1890 1948 Konon Molody 1922 1970 Sergey Muromtsev 1850 1910 Faina Ranevskaya 1896 1984 Ivan Shmelyov 1873 1950 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 2008 Pavel Sudoplatov 1907 1996 Valeriya Novodvorskaya 1950 2014 nbsp The Orthodox church of St Anna of Kashin was used by the Soviets as the first crematorium in the country Supposed secret burials editAnna Abrikosova 1882 1936 Isaak Babel 1894 1940 Vasily Blyukher 1889 1938 Milan Gorkic 1904 1937 Stanislav Kosior 1889 1939 Vsevolod Meyerhold 1874 1940 Evgeny Miller 1867 1939 Oleg Penkovsky 1919 1963 Faina Stavskaya 1890 1937 Mikhail Tukhachevsky 1893 1937 Pavel Alexandrovich Alexandrov 1866 1940 Alexander Ilyich Yegorov 1883 1939 Nikolai Yezhov 1895 1940 References edit a b Donskoe kladbishe Don Cemetery in Russian Archived from the original on 2016 03 05 Retrieved 2016 06 04 Brooke Caroline Moscow A Cultural History Oxford University Press Sep 18 2006 pp 163 164 External links edit nbsp Media related to Donskoye Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons Donskoye Cemetery at Find a Grave nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Donskoye Cemetery amp oldid 1222028706, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
