Novodevichy Cemetery is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site.
Novodevichy Cemetery
The cemetery wall is used as a columbarium.
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev and Raisa Gorbacheva
Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery, is probably the best-known cloister of Moscow. Its name, sometimes translated as the New Maidens' Monastery, was devised to differ from the Old Maidens' Monastery within the Moscow Kremlin. Unlike other Moscow cloisters, it has remained virtually intact since the 17th century. In 2004, it was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Novodevichy Convent at night
Tsarevna Sofia Alekseyevna at the Novodevichy Convent (1879), by Ilya Repin.
Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk at the Novodevichy Convent (16th century)
The convent at night