Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)

Novodevichy Cemetery (Russian: Новодевичье кладбище) in Saint Petersburg is a historic cemetery in the south-west part of the city near the Moscow Triumphal Gate.

The cemetery started in 1845 when the Smolny Convent was moved to this location.

Notable people formerly interred at the Novodevichy Cemetery include the poets Nikolay Nekrasov and Fyodor Tyutchev, the painter Mikhail Vrubel, the architect Leonty Benois, the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the philologist Yakov Grot, the publisher A. F. Marx, the chess-player Mikhail Chigorin, the politician Vyacheslav Pleve and the explorer Gennady Nevelskoi.

Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (1855–1856, architect E. I. Zhiber) – the temple is dedicated to the memory of the commander of the Alexandria Hussars, Colonel A. N. Karamzin, son of the famous historian Nikolai Karamzin.

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