Lazarus cemetery

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The Lazarus Cemetery ( Russian Лазаревское кладбище / Lasarewskoje kladbishche; scientific transliteration ; Lazarevskoe kladbišče ), actually: Nekropol XVIII weka / Некрополь XVIII века / Necropolis of the 18th century ; (English Necropolis of the 18th Century ) is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg ( Russia ). Its history begins in 1717. Numerous personalities of the upper class of Saint Petersburg and the Russian Empire are buried on it. On it are the graves of employees of the Tsar , high civil servants, scientists, poets, architects, engineers and noble families. The Lazarus Cemetery has been part of the city's State Sculpture Museum since 1932.

Some tombstones, grave sculptures, etc. of great artistic value are kept in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

Personalities buried in the Lazarus cemetery

• Denis Iwanowitsch Fonwisin (satirist and comedy poet)
• Jakow Borissowitsch Knjaschnin (poet)
• Natalja Nikolajewna Pushkina-Lanskaja (wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin )
• Juri Fjodorowitsch Lisjanski (circumnavigator)
• Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow (universal scholar)
• Carlo Rossi (architect)
• Boris Petrovich Sheremetev (Field Marshal General)
• Ivan Yegorowitsch Starow (architect)
• Leonhard Euler (mathematician)
• Vasily Petrovich Stasov (architect)
• Sergei Juljewitsch Witte (Prime Minister)
• Iwan Iwanowitsch Bezkoi school reformer
• Andrei Nikiforowitsch Voronikhin (architect, sculptor and painter)
• Giacomo Quarenghi (Italian architect and painter,)
• Jean-François Thomas de Thomon (French architect)
• Feodossi Fyodorovich Shchedrin (sculptor)
• Mikhail Ivanovich Koslowski (sculptor)

See also

• Tikhvin cemetery
• Nicholas cemetery
• List of cemeteries in Saint Petersburg
• List of graves and monuments in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Lazarus Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lazarus Cemetery (Russian)
• The 18th Century Necropolis and the St. Lazarus Burial Vault

Lazarus cemetery (alternative names of the lemma)
Lazarus Cemetery; Лазаревское кладбище; Lazarevskoye Kladbishche; Lazarevskoe kladbišče; 18th century necropolis; 18th century necropolis; Necropolis of the 18th Century

Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 24 ″  N , 30 ° 23 ′ 15 ″  E