Novodevichy Cemetery
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Novodevichy Cemetery is a cemetery in Moscow, Russia. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent.
Novodevichy Cemetery propylaea
The cemetery wall is used as a columbarium.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Anton Chekhov
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the C
Novodevichy Cemetery
…burial in the Novodevichy Cemetery was second in prestige only to burial in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Among the Soviet leaders, Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev would be buried there. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin Wall is no longer used for burials and the Novodevichy Cemetery is used for only…
Gorbachev in 1987
Gorbachev and his Ukrainian maternal grandparents, late 1930s
Gorbachev on a visit to East Germany in 1966
Gorbachev (right) with his mentor Yuri Andropov in 1973