The Novodevichy Necropolis (13pics)

Greetings, friends.
Yesterday I told you that a week ago, my wife and I were in Moscow and found ourselves near the Novodevichy Monastery.
I thought that we would take a walk in the park, around the pond, and go further along the Embankment of the Moskva River. But it turned out that the daughter and son-in-law were planning to visit the Novodevichy cemetery. I was surprised by their desire, because I had never thought about such a walk. But it turned out that there were a lot of people who wanted to walk around the cemetery.

Novodevichy Cemetery is one of the most famous necropolises in Russia. First, nuns were buried here, then merchants, and in the 19th century, politicians, military men, scientists, artists, and other famous people began to be buried. Here you can find many sculptures and monuments of the highest craftsmanship and quality.
The territory of the Novodevichy cemetery occupies about eight hectares. It is divided into three historical parts, which appeared as the territory was filled with graves.
At the moment, there are no more free burial places, you can only take care of relatives at existing graves.
We visited only the new and newest part of the cemetery, where burials have been going on since about the early 60s. I saw the graves of many generals, ministers, military designers, and scientists. I was not much interested in these nomenclatural personalities. I was interested in finding the graves of real artists and creative personalities.

As always, I was not ready to visit this place. I had 0 information about this place in my head. What kind of flag is this, I thought. Maybe it's just another modern exhibition celebrating Russia? Oh, no, it can't be. This is the grave of Boris Yeltsin, the first Russian President who destroyed the USSR.
From that moment on, I started photographing some of the monuments and tombstones.



Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater and cinema. People's Artist of the USSR. Winner of the Stalin Prize and the Union State Prize in literature and art. Full Knight of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
He died at the age of 101, and until his death, he went on the stage to act.

Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin is a Soviet and Russian circus performer, circus director, film actor, TV presenter, and director of the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Vasiliev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR.
Books have been written about this man, and documentaries have been made. He was a beloved, famous man during his lifetime. Films with his participation are still watched and reviewed by adults and children.

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin is a Soviet film actor, film director, screenwriter, and writer; Honored Artist of the RSFSR, winner of the Lenin Prize, the USSR State Priz,e and the RSFSR Vasiliev Brothers State Prize.
He was also a cult figure of the time. There is even a shared film with Yuri Nikulin. But he passed away early. He was disliked by officials for his love of freedom and disobedience to their will. Those were Soviet times.

Galina Borisovna Volchek is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, theater director, and teacher. Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of the USSR, winner of the USSR State Prize and the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation.
Galina Volchek is the first director who went to the USA with performances. The beginning of his creative career abroad was the production of the play Echelon by playwright Mikhail Roshchin. Later, Volchek came to the United States more than once, including to Broadway, with other performances.
She also toured Germany, Ireland, Finland, and Hungary. In addition, she was happy to share her experience and acted as a teacher in different countries.
I was surprised to see her monument. I thought she was still alive. And this was not my only surprise when I saw the graves.

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev was a Soviet politician, statesman and party leader. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR.
It was this man who declared that Stalin was a dictator. Under his rule, the first sprouts of democracy and freedom appeared in the USSR, but he was a communist, and he also ruled an authoritarian one. The Caribbean Crisis arose during his time, but he was the first secretary-general to come to the United States and took a lot of useful things from this visit. But he is being blamed for the fact that, on his instructions, corn was sown even in the northern regions of our country, where corn did not want to grow.



Here is another interesting Soviet politician, if you can call him that.
Revolutionary, Bolshevik, statesman, and party leader of the USSR. He began his career under Lenin and died under Brezhnev. He managed to circumvent Stalin's repressions, survived the rise and fall of Khrushchev. How did he get it? He probably knew how to walk in the rain between the raindrops.

This is Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She passed away on November 9, 1932, at the age of 31. She shot herself. Why did she do that? History does not like the subjunctive conjugation, but how would the country's life have turned out if it had remained alive and influenced Stalin's actions?

The graves of Stalin's grandchildren.
Daughter of Yakov Dzhugashvili, who died in a German concentration camp in 1943.
Vasily Stalin's second wife, Svetlana Timoshenko, and her children, Vasily and Svetlana.
The ashes of their grandfather, Stalin, lie under the Kremlin wall, and their father is buried in Kazan. That's the fate of this family.

@melinda010100, have you been walking in this cemetery? Have you seen these works of art in the open air? When I walked through this cemetery, for some reason I thought about the sculptures that I saw in Rome and in the Vatican!