Wagankowo Cemetery
The vagankovo cemetery ( Russian Ваганьковское кладбище / transcription Wagankowskoje kladbischtsche ) in Moscow is one of the most famous cemeteries in Russia . It is around 50 hectares and is now home to numerous graves of prominent personalities.
General
Today's Vagankovo Cemetery was built in 1771 a little west of the then city limits of Moscow, near the village of Novoje Vagankovo, and initially served as a mass burial site for victims of the plague epidemic, which was rampant at the time . Until around the middle of the 19th century, the cemetery was essentially a burial place for poor people. It was only through the strong population growth and the further expansion of the city limits that increasingly wealthy and also prominent people were buried here. From 1925 to 1936, victims of the Stalin purges were buried here.
During the Soviet era , many well-known artists in particular found their final resting place here, while after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Wagankowo Cemetery increasingly came into the headlines as the preferred burial site of (alleged) mafia bosses and other new riches. Unlike the Moscow Novodevichy Cemetery , where only honorary citizens and their relatives are buried, anyone who can afford it can buy a burial site in the Vagankovo Cemetery.
The architectural center of the park-like Wagankowoer cemetery are two churches built in 1824 , which are used as a cemetery chapel. In addition to individual graves, the cemetery contains mass burials of the victims of the Battle of Borodino , the Chodynka tragedy of 1896 , the revolution of 1905 and the Second World War, as well as the three resistance fighters who perished during the August coup of 1991. Victims of the hostage-taking in the Dubrowka Musical Theater in 2002 were also buried in the Wagankowo cemetery, albeit in separate individual graves.
Graves of prominent people
- Alexander Abdulow (1953–2008), actor and director
- Wassili Agapkin (1884–1964), composer
- Vasily Aksjonow (1932–2009), writer
- Boris Andreyev (1915–1982), actor
- Dmitri Anuchin (1843–1923), geographer and ethnologist
- Nikolai Anziferow (1889–1958), historian
- Abram Archipov (1862–1930), painter
- Inga Artamonowa (1936–1966), speed skater
- Nikolai Bauman (1873–1905), revolutionary
- Alexander Beljajew (1803–1888), writer, Decembrist
- Pavel Bobrishchev-Pushkin (1802–1865), poet and Decembrist
- Michail Bontsch-Brujewitsch (1870–1956), revolutionary
- Georgi Burkow (1933–1990), actor
- Oleg Dal (1941–1981), actor
- Wladimir Dal (1801–1872), lexicographer
- Igor Dmitriev (1941–1997), ice hockey player and coach
- Lyubov Dobrschanskaja (1906–1980), actress
- Nil Filatow (1847–1902), pediatrician
- Alexander Frolow (1804-1885), lieutenant, Decembrist
- Sergei Gorodetsky (1884–1967), poet
- Sergei Grinkow (1967–1995), figure skater
- Lev Yashin (1929–1990), football goalkeeper
- Leonid Jengibarow (1935–1972), clown, actor and pantomime
- Sergei Jessenin (1895–1925), poet, husband of the dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927)
- Sergei Yuschenkow (1950–2003), politician
- Weniamin Kawerin (1902–1989), writer
- Mikhail Kononov (1940-2007), actor
- Janka Kupala (1882–1942), poet
- Vladislav Listjew (1956–1995), journalist
- Alexei Lossew (1893–1988), philosopher
- Yevgeny Majorov (1938–1997), ice hockey player
- Andrei Mironov (1941–1987), actor
- Pavel Motschalow (1902–1977), actor
- Igor Netto (1930–1999), football player
- Bulat Okudschawa (1924–1997), poet and musician
- Lyudmila Pachomova (1946–1986), figure skater
- Mikhail Possochin (1910–1989), architect
- Mikhail Pugovkin (1923–2008), actor
- Vasily Pukirew (1832–1890), painter
- Alexander Ragulin (1941–2004), ice hockey player
- Sinaida Reich (1894–1939), actress
- Larissa Reissner (1895–1926), writer
- Nikolai Roslawez (1881–1944), composer, music theorist, publicist, pedagogue and violinist
- Wiktor Rosow (1913-2004), playwright
- Jakow Roswal (1932–2015), engineer
- Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897), painter
- Fjodor Schechtel (1859–1926), architect
- Boris Schitkow (1882–1938), writer
- Witali Solomin (1941–2002), actor
- Anatoly Solonitsyn (1934–1982), actor
- Alexei Speranski (1888–1961), pathologist
- Nikolai Starostin (1902–1996), football player
- Pawel Sternberg (1865–1920), astronomer
- Eduard Strelzow (1937–1990), football player
- Alexei Sudajew (1912-1946), weapons designer
- Wassili Surikow (1848–1916), painter
- Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002), musician
- Igor Talkov (1956–1991), musician
- Michail Tanitsch (1923–2008), songwriter
- Anatoly Tarasov (1918–1995), ice hockey player
- Kliment Timirjasew (1843–1920), biologist
- Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy , nicknamed American (1782–1846), notorious adventurer and duelist
- Wassili Tropinin (1776–1857), painter
- Arkady Chernyshev (1914–1992), ice hockey player
- Grigori Tschuchrai (1921-2001), director
- Yuri Tynyanov (1894–1943), writer
- Alexei Werstowski (1799–1862), composer
- Lew W Lassenko (1928–1996), pianist and piano teacher
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980), actor, poet and musician
- Georgi Wizin (1917-2001), actor
See also
- Armenian Cemetery Moscow , is located in the immediate vicinity of Vagankovo Cemetery
- List of burial places of famous people
Web links
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- ^ Website of the Russian human rights society Memorial Mass Graves of Stalinist Terror
- ^ Website of the Russian human rights society Memorial , list of victims of Stalinist repression buried on Vagankovo
- ^ Biography of Oleg Dal , accessed on December 6, 2019
Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ′ 6.6 " N , 37 ° 32 ′ 56.4" E