Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is part of the Cimetière de Liers and is called the Russian Orthodox cemetery, in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, close to Paris, France.
Russian temples
Plaque with information about who and when donated the ground of the cemetery
The cemetery
Ivan Bunin's grave
Rudolf Nureyev
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Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the preeminent male ballet dancer of the 20th century, as well as one of the greatest ballet
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
…were exhumed and reburied in Moscow. The cemetery is closed to new burials. It was only after pressure from the central government that the burial of Rudolf Nureyev was sanctioned there. His tomb is covered with a mosaic decoration to represent a traditional kilim blanket. In November 2000 Russian president Vladimir…
Nureyev in 1973
Rudolf Nureyev after his defection from the Soviet Union in 1961.
Margot Fonteyn, Fred Astaire and Nureyev from a 1965 appearance on the U.S. television show The Hollywood Palace
Nureyev with Liliana Cosi in Rome, 1972