Cemeteries of Saint Petersburg. Smolenskoye Orthodox Cemetery, Part 2 - a burial place for Christians of the Orthodox faith in the western part of Saint Petersburg, on Vasilievsky Island. It was established by the spiritual authority - the Holy Synod in 1738 and the secular authority - by decree of the Senate in 1756. According to legend, in the first years of the construction of Saint Petersburg, workers of a carpenter's and diggers' team from the Smolensk province were buried on Vasilievsky Island on the southern bank of the Black River (Smolenka). Since 1922, the cemetery was considered "effectively closed for burials due to lack of space." In 1938, the cemetery was finally closed for burials. On August 17, 1940, by decision of the Leningrad City Council, the Smolensk Church and the Chapel of Saint Xenia were closed. The decision also noted that the chapel building should be "torn down within a month." However, the chapel was not torn down, and pilgrimages to it continued. After the Great Patriotic War, the Chapel of Saint Xenia the Blessed was opened. Services in the Smolensk Church were resumed in 1946. In 1960, the Chapel of Saint Xenia the Blessed was closed. A quarter of a century later, the Chapel of Saint Xenia the Blessed was reopened. It was consecrated on August 10, 1987. The second part of the review is dedicated to historical military and government figures, figures of science and culture of the Russian Empire, as well as Soviet and Russian cultural figures, you will see the graves of famous directors, theater and film actors, singers and musicians, such as: 00:00 Start 01:26 Arina (Irina) Rodionovna Yakovleva (1758 - 1828, 70 years old) - nanny of A.S. Pushkin 02:15 Ksenia of Petersburg (in the world - Ksenia Grigoryevna Petrova, 1719 - 1803, 84 years old) 04:14 Martyr Maria of Gatchina (in the world Lydia Alexandrovna Lelyanova) (1874 - 1932, 58 years old) 06:07 Lyudmila Petrovna Senchina (1950 - 2018, 67 years old) - singer 08:08 Eduard Anatolyevich Khil (1934 - 2012, 77 years old) - singer 10:16 Nikolay Alekseevich Titov (1800 - 1875, 75 years old) - Russian composer, author of popular romances 12:22 Aleksey Oktyabrinovich Balabanov (1959 - 2013, 54 years old) - film director 14:22 Aleksandr Arkadyevich Belinsky (1928 - 2014, 85 years old) - director, actor 16:24 Stanislav Nikolaevich Landgraf (1939 - 2006, 67 years old) - actor 18:27 Anna Vladlenovna Samokhina (1963 - 2010, 47 years old) - actress 20:41 Aleksey Vladimirovich Fedotov (1973 - 2015, 41 years old) - actor 22:47 Svetlana Alekseevna Karpinskaya (1937 - 2017, 79 years old) - actress 24:36 Alexandra Semyonovna Zavyalova (1936 - 2016, 79 years old) - actress 27:11 Viktor Aleksandrovich Kostetsky (1941 - 2014, 73 years old) - actor 28:59 Vladimir Mikhailovich Tatosov (1926 - 2021, 95 years old) - actor 31:16 Alexander Ivanovich Blok (1955 - 2015, 59 years old) - actor 33:00 Tatyana Petrovna Kulish (1952 - 2010, 58 years old) - actress 34:43 Rostislav Aleksandrovich Shirokikh (1926 - 1993, 67 years old) - announcer 36:07 Vladislav Yuryevich Mamyshev-Monroe (1969 - 2013, 43 years old) - artist and actor 37:53 Sergei Mikhailovich Berezhnoy (1949 - 2011, 62 years old) - ballet dancer 39:28 Georgy (Gustav) Konstantinovich Guryanov (1961 - 2013, 52 years old) - rock musician 40:58 Viktor Borisovich Krivulin (1944 - 2001, 56 years old) - poet 43:21 Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko (1814 - 1861, 47 years old) - poet, painter 45:37 Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921, 40 years old) - poet 47:26 Fyodor Kuzmich Sologub (real surname — Teternikov, 1863-1927, 64 years old) - poet 49:40 Nikolai Vasilyevich Kopytov (1833-1901, 67 years old) - vice-admiral 50:52 Mass grave of lower ranks of the Life Guards Finland Regiment 52:08 Mass grave of sailors of the submarine "Dolphin" 53:37 Alexander Nikolaevich Bakhtin (1894-1931, 37 years old) - submarine officer 55:07 Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaisky (1825-1890, 65 years old) - aviation pioneer 57:06 Nadezhda Alekseevna Stenbock-Fermor (Yakovleva, 1815-1897, 82 years old) - owner of mining plants 58:15 Alexander Yakovlevich Knyazhnin (1771 - 1829, 57 years old) - playwright and poet 59:27 Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky (1858 - 1911, 52 years old) - artist 01:00:34 Leonid Vladimirovich Pozen (1849 - 1921, 71 years old) - Itinerant sculptor 01:01:34 Ivan Fyodorovich Kolesnikov (1887 - 1929, 42 years old) - artist 01:02:26 Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827 - 1914, 87 years old) - traveler 01:04:43 Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (1846 - 1920, 74 years old) - Itinerant artist 01:05:54 Nikolai Nikanorovich Dubovskoy (1859 - 1918, 58 years old) - artist 01:07:35 Andrey Aleksandrovich Popov (1821 - 1898, 76 years old) - shipbuilder, admiral 01:09:02 Fyodor Mikhailovich Novosilsky (1808 - 1892, 84 years old) - admiral of the Russian fleet 01:10:01 Gennady Ivanovich Popovich (1973 - 2010, 37 years old) - football player 00:11:11 monument to the victims of the Tu