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
Boris Yeltsin
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He lat
Novodevichy Cemetery
…cemetery at state expense (since he didn't have any money of his own). In April 2007, within one week both the first President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich were buried there. Today, the cemetery holds the tombs of Russian authors, musicians, playwrights, and poets, as well…
Official portrait, 1992
Yeltsin (second from left) with his childhood friends in the 1940s
In 1976, Yeltsin was interviewed by Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, who decided that he was an appropriate choice to become First Secretary of the party's Sverdlovsk obkom.
Mikhail Gorbachev took office as the General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985; he soon promoted Yeltsin to a job in Moscow.