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Tikhvin Cemetery

 

Tikhvin Cemetery

Tikhvin Cemetery (Тихвинское кладбище) is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Established in 1823, some of the notables buried here are:

  • Mily Balakirev - (1836-1910), composer
  • Alexander Borodin - (1833-1887), composer
  • César Cui - (1835-1918), composer
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky - (1821-1881), author
  • Mikhail Glinka - (1804-1857), composer
  • Ivan Krylov - (1769-1844), author
  • Modest Mussorgsky - (1839-1881), composer
  • Marius Petipa - (1818-1910), French ballet choreographer
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - (1844-1908), composer
  • Nikolai Rubinstein - (1835 - 1881), pianist, conductor and composer
  • Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky - 1843 - 1902, operatic bass, father of composer Igor Stravinsky
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - (1840-1893), composer

    See also: List of other famous cemeteries



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