Tikhvin Cemetery
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Tikhvin Cemetery (Tikhvinskoe kladbishche) 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
- [[C�sar Cui]] - (1835-1918), composer
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - (1821-1881), author
- Mikhail Glinka - (1804-1857), composer
- Modest Mussorgsky - (1839-1881), composer
- Marius Petipa - (1818-1910), French ballet choreographer
- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - (1844-1908), composer
- Nikolai Grigoryevich 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
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Tikhvin_Cemetery" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikhvin_Cemetery, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
