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Novodevichy Convent and Cemetery

Novodevichy Convent and Cemetery

The Novodevichy Convent was founded in 1525 by the Great Prince Basil III. That was the promise he had given: to establish a monastery in honor of Smolenskaya icon of the Virgin on condition that Smolensk was freed from the Lithuanians. A special place was chosen for the erection of the building. That was Devichy meadow, called like that after a tatar tradition to choose girls to be taken to servitude. Aleviz Novy was the one who designed the main cathedral of the Monastery. In different epochs different parts of the Monastery were erected: majestic walls and towers in the times of Boris Godunov, the Pokrova of the Virgin Church and Uspensky Cathedral - at the end of the XVII century. Monastery walls and towers got their modern appearance in tsarevna Sophia''s reign. At the same period the five-headed Preobrzhenskaya Church with a bell-tower was built. Originally the bell-tower was planned to be built eight-tiered. But the erection of the tower was stopped when it contained only six tiers and was 73 meters high. Unfortunately the name of its creator didn''t remain till our times, but Bazhenov and Bove, outstanding Russian architects, considered it the most beautiful and imposing bell-tower in Moscow. The Convent is widely known since some members (sisters and wives) of the tsar''s family have become nuns there. One of them was Irina Godunova, tsar Feodor''s widow, who managed to elevate her brother Boris Godunov to the throne. Peter I''s wife Evdokiya was among them. Also Peter I''s sister Sophia, who was overthrown and made to take the veil after strelets'' riots had been suppressed. The Monastery was abolished in the twenties. And in the thirties a branch of the State History Museum occupied the building. In 1944 Uspensky Cathedral was given to the orthodox community. At the same time Moscow Theological academy and seminary moved to the monastery. In 1994 the restoration of the monkhood of Novodevichy Monastery began. Since then divine services has been taking place at Uspensky cathedral.

The cemetery was founded in 1898. More than 27 000 people, including many famous ones, are buried there. Some of the cemetery’s famous inhabitants are:

Ivan Agayants (1911–1968), a KGB officer and foreign spy
Sergei Aksakov (1791–1859), a writer
Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin (1901–1932), wife of Joseph Stalin
Daniil Andreev (1906–1959), a writer
Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), a writer
Andrei Bely (1880–1934), a writer
Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970), a cosmonaut
Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995), a cosmonaut
Mark Bernes (1911–1969), an actor and singer
Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich (1873–1955), a writer
Sergei Bondarchuk (1920–1994), an actor and director
Artyom Borovik (1960–2000), a journalist and businessman
Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), a writer
Mikhail Bulgakov (1881–1940), a playwright and author
Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), a statesman
Nikolai Burdenko (1876–1946), a neurosurgeon
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990), a Nobel laureate in Physics
Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906–1945), a General of the Army
Fyodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), an opera singer
Georgi Chicherin (1872–1936), a statesman
Kuzma Derevyanko (1904–1954), an army general
Alexander Deyneka (1899–1969), a painter and sculptor
Lev Dovator (1903–1941), an Army general
Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), a composer and conductor
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), a writer
G. El-Registan (1899–1945), a poet
Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), a film director
Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956), a writer
Dmitri Furmanov (1891–1926), a writer
Ekaterina Furtseva (1910–1974), a politician
Sergei Gerasimov (1906–1985), a film director
Emil Gilels (1916–1985), a pianist
Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), a composer
Valentin Glushko (1908–1989), a spacecraft and rockets designer
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), a writer
Raisa Gorbachyova (1932–1999), a former "First Lady" of the Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), a politician
Ilya Ilf (1897–1937), a writer
Sergey Ilyushin (1894–1977), aircraft designer
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–1987), a composer
Lazar Kaganovich (1892–1991), a politician
Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), a Nobel prize winning economist
Lev Kassil (1905–1970), a writer
Valentin Kataev (1897–1986), a writer
Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), a poet
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), a politician
Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), a violin virtuoso
Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), a politician
Pavel Korin (1892–1967), a Russian painter and art restorer
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), a heroic partisan
Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976), an army general
Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944),the knapsack parachute inventor
Ivan Kozhedub (1920–1991), an air force general
Ivan Kozlovsky (1900–1993), an opera singer
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russia's foremost anarchist
Lev Landau (1908–1968), a Nobel laureate in Physics
Alexander Lebed (1950–2002), an army general and politician
Sergei Lebedev (1902–1974), a computer pioneer
Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), an actor
Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), a painter
Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951), a politician
Samuil Marshak (1887–1964), a writer, translator and children's poet
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), a poet
Alexei Maresiev (1916–2001), a flying ace
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978), a politician
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986), a politician
Kirill Moskalenko (1902–1985), a former commander of Strategic Rocket Forces
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), a theater director
Yuri Nikulin (1921–1997), a clown and actor
Sergey Obraztsov (1901–1992), a puppeteer
Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956), a geologist, geographer and explorer
Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), a writer
David Oistrakh (1908–1974), a violin virtuoso
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936), a writer
Aleksandr Oparin (1894–1980), a scientist
Ivan Panfilov (1892–1941), an army general
Anatoli Papanov (1922–1987), an actor
Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951), a poet and jazz musician
Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974), a female sniper
Ivan Petrov (1896–1958), an army general
Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983), a politician
Boris Polevoy (1908–1981), a writer
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin (1913–1985), an Air Force marshal
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), a composer
Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), a stand up comedian
Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), a pianist
Mikhail Romm (1901–1971), a film director
Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881), a Russian pianist and composer
Lidiya Ruslanova (1900–1973), a folk singer
Alexander Saburov (1908–1974), an army general and politician
Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), a scientist
Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), a composer
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), a composer
Nikolai Semashko (1874–1949), a politician
Yuri Senkevich (1937–2003), an explorer
Valentin Serov (1865–1911), a writer and artist
Alexey Shchusev (1873–1949), an architect
Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), a composer
Dmitri Shepilov (1905–1995), a politician
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), a composer
Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939), a civil engineer
Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974), a writer and actor
Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925–1994), an actor
Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), a philosopher
Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938), a theater director
Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov (1903–1964), a poet
Viktor Talalikhin (1918–1941), a heroic army lieutenant
Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915), a composer
Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953), a painter and architect
Vasily Tikhomirov (1876–1956), a choreographer
Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997), a politician
Gherman Titov (1935–2000), a cosmonaut, second man in space
Aleksey Tolstoy (1882–1945), a writer
Pavel Tretyakov (1832–1898), a businessman and art collector
Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972), an aircraft designer
Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971), a writer
Galina Ulanova (1909–1998), a prima ballerina
Vasili Ulrikh (1889–1951), a military judge
Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883–1922), a theater director
Sergey Vavilov (1891–1951), a physicist
Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), a mineralogist and a geochemist
Ivan Vinogradov (1891–1983), a mathematician
Nikolay Zelinskiy (1861–1953), a chemist
Georgiy Zhzhonov (1915–2005), an actor

Essential Information for Visitors

►Address and Contact Details

1, Novodevichiy pr-d.
Tel. 246-29-05, 246-8526
Nearest metro station: Sportivnaya



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