NOVODEVICHY CEMETERY

If you want to be immortalized then come to Russia and be entombed in the Novodevichy Cemetery located adjacent to the Novodevichy Convent.  Within the walls of this cemetery lie important people in Russian politics, entertainment, literary and military heroes, etc. 

Grave site of a famous Russian circus clown

Famous Russian writer and his dog take time for a brief interlude among the flowers and in the shade of the trees

Lovers lost??

The wall of urns lines all four 15 foot walls of the cemetery

Shady walkways between grave sites make for easy navigation.  Each plot is individualized and separated by bricks or other barriers between each grave site.

Miniature tank to remember a war hero

This statue was beautiful, feminine, and peaceful to honor a former ballerina

Nikita Khruschchev's memorial

Walkway down the center of the cemetary

A famous literary figure immortalized in bronze and forever thinking up new and exciting plots!

Typical wreths of flowers on a grave site of a military figure

A cosmonaut forever captured in bronze

A wooden memorial