Cemeteries of Saint Petersburg. The Necropolis of Masters of Arts is an object of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture located on the territory of the former Tikhvin Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. The cemetery was created in 1823 after the neighboring Lazarevskoye Cemetery began to run out of free burial places. The Tikhvin Necropolis was intended for the most outstanding people of its time: from politicians to artists. As part of the policy of cemetery reconstruction and in connection with the creation of the Museum-Necropolis (later - the Museum of Urban Sculpture), the Soviet government redesigned the cemetery in 1935-1937. About 60 tombstones and monuments, declared historical and artistic values, were brought here from other cemeteries in the city (Farforovskoye, Mitrofanievsky (destroyed along with the churches), Malo-Okhtinsky Orthodox, Vyborg Roman Catholic (destroyed), Smolensk Orthodox, Lutheran and Armenian, Volkovskiye Orthodox and Lutheran, Novodevichy and Nikolskoye). At the same time, many graves were destroyed at the Tikhvin Cemetery itself, which, according to the authorities of the time, "had no value". For many decades after the burial of People's Artist of the USSR Nikolai Cherkasov in 1966, the cemetery was considered closed. Mainly because it is a museum. An exception was made only for the ashes of the composer Alexander Glazunov, transported from France in 1972, and Georgy Tovstonogov, buried here in 1989. Currently, the cemetery does not belong to the territory of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. The necropolis of masters of art is a unique collection of works of memorial art. Here are monuments to outstanding representatives of Russian culture and art of the 19th–20th centuries, such as: 00:00 Start 00:27 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881, 59 years old) - writer 01:59 Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766–1826, 59 years old) - historian, writer 03:21 Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky (1783–1852, 69 years old) - poet 04:33 Konstantin Karlovich Danzas (1801–1870, 69 years old) - officer of the Russian Imperial Army, lyceum classmate of A.S. Pushkin 05:53 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–1857, 52 years old) - composer 06:55 Mily Alekseevich Balakirev (1836/1837 - 1910, 73 years old) - composer 07:56 Alexander Sergeevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869, 55 years old) - composer 09:07 Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908, 64 years old) - composer 10:42 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881, 42 years old) - composer 11:59 Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (1833 - 1887, 53 years old) - composer 13:08 Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894, 64 years old) - composer 14:00 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893, 53 years old) - composer 15:21 Marius Ivanovich Petipa (1818 - 1910, 92 years old) - ballet soloist, choreographer 16:30 Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844, 44 years old) - poet, friend of Pushkin 17:33 Alexander Evstafievich Martynov (1816 - 1860, 44 years old) - actor 18:39 Varvara Nikolaevna Asenkova (1817 - 1841, 24 years old) - actress 20 :10 Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy (1837 - 1887, 49 years old) - artist 21:17 Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832 - 1898, 66 years old) - artist 22:25 Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (1824 - 1896, 72 years old) - marine painter 23:36 Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (1878 - 1927, 49 years old) - artist 25:04 Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1842 - 1910, 68 years old) - artist 26:31 Pyotr Karlovich Klodt (1805 - 1867, 62 years old) - sculptor 27:46 Ivan Petrovich Vitali (1794 - 1855, 61 years old) - sculptor 28:56 Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov (1903 - 1966, 63 years old) - actor 31:05 Ekaterina Pavlovna Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya (1874 - 1951, 76 years old) - actress 33:02 Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov (1915 - 1989, 73 years old) - theater director 34:20 Nikolai Fedorovich Monakhov (1 875 - 1936, 61 years old) - actor 35:50 Maria Szymanowska (Polish: Maria Szymanowska, née Marianne Agata Wołowska; 1789 - 1831, 41 years old) - pianist and composer 37:02 Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky (1843 - 1902, 59 years old) - singer 38:20 Ivan Andreevich Krylov (1769 - 1844, 75 years old) - fabulist, poet 39:30 Nikolai Ivanovich Gnedich (1784 - 1833, 49 years old) - poet 40:40 Alexander Efimovich Izmailov (1779 - 1831, 51 years old) - fabulist, publisher 41:40 Olga Sergeevna Pavlishcheva-Pushkina (1797 - 1868, 70 years old) - sister of A.S. Pushkin 42:36 Yuri Fyodorovich Lisyansky (1773 - 1837, 63 years old) - navigator, explorer, writer 43:35 Pyotr Andreevich Kikin (1775 - 1834, 58 years old) - general, state secretary of Alexander I, philanthropist 44:32 Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky (1792 - 1878, 86 years old) - prince, poet, historian 45:31 Vera Feodorovna Komissarzhevskaya (1864 - 1910, 45 years old) - actress 47:00 Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malinovsky (1779 - 1846, 67 years old) - sculptor 48:17 Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov (1882 - 1954, 71 years old) - artist 49:33 Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov (1824 - 1906, 82 years old) - art historian 51:02 Nikolay Iv