Tikhvin Cemetery
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Tikhvin Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the centre of Saint Petersburg. It is part of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, and is one of four cemeteries in the complex. Since 1932 it has been part of the St
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The former cemetery church
The grave of Fyodor Dostoevsky and his wife Anna
The grave of Vera Komissarzhevskaya, one of many transferred to the Tikhvin Cemetery in the 1930s
Anna Dostoevskaya
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Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya was a Russian memoirist, stenographer, and assistant, as well as the second wife of writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. She was also one of the first female philatelists in Russia.
Tikhvin Cemetery
…actor Nikolay Cherkasov in 1966. In 1972 the remains of the composer Alexander Glazunov were transferred from Paris. In 1968 Fyodor Dostoevsky's wife Anna Dostoevskaya was reburied next to her husband, while theatre director Georgy Tovstonogov was interred in the cemetery in 1989. So far Tovstonogov's has been the…
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Dostoevskaya in the 1880s