Armenian Cemetery (Moscow)
The Armenian cemetery ( Russian Армянское кладбище ) is located in the Moscow District of Administration Center , District Presnensky, diagonally opposite the Russian Orthodox vagankovo cemetery . It is the traditional burial place of the Armenian diaspora in central Russia .
The cemetery is around two hectares and parts of it are listed .
history
The Armenian cemetery was built towards the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century as an independent part of the neighboring Vagankovo cemetery, which was laid out a few years earlier. While the latter initially served as a burial place for the poorer classes of the Moscow population, wealthy merchants also found their final resting place in the Armenian Cemetery. In 1815 the Armenian parish of Moscow had a church building built in the central area of the cemetery. This has been preserved to this day and serves both as a place of worship and as a cemetery chapel.
In the 1850s, the cemetery was enclosed by a stone wall. In the late 19th century, the red-brick funeral hall was built in the cemetery near the main entrance. Both this and the church are now a listed building.
Gravesites
Today the cemetery has an extremely dense population of trees and, in addition to a large number of modern graves, houses historical monuments from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of these tombstones are executed as kachkars in the Armenian tradition , some particularly elaborate tombs are mausoleums of rich Russian-Armenian merchants and manufacturers.
There are also a large number of graves of well-known personalities not only of Armenian origin in the Armenian Cemetery. Among other things, the following are buried here:
- Alexei Duschkin (1904–1977), architect
- Tigran Petrosjan (1929–1984), world chess champion
- Andrei Platonov (1899–1951), writer
- Leonid Ramsin (1887–1948), engineer
- Nadeschda Rumjanzewa (1930-2008), actress
- Marietta Schaginjan (1888–1982), writer
- Mikael Tariwerdijew (1931–1996), composer
- Wartkes Tewekeljan (1902–1969), writer
See also
Web links
- Official Website (Russian)
Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 57.2 ″ N , 37 ° 33 ′ 16.2 ″ E