Understanding Russia – Novodevichje Cemetery

Novodevichje cemetery is an important part of Soviet and Russian history and politics.To understand who is who in Russian-Soviet literature , art and politics is a must to visit this cemetery in Moscow. It is well known not only as a burial place of many famous people(Gogol, Chekov, Bulgakov, Eltsin, Rostropovich, Khrushev, many others) but also for the unusual tombstones.