Smolensky Cemetery

[1] It occupies a rectangular parcel in the western part of Vasilievsky Island, on the bank of the small Smolenka River, and is divided into the Orthodox, Lutheran, and Armenian sections.

[3] Interments included: After the Russian Revolution the local authorities announced plans to demolish the cemetery by 1937, replacing it with a public garden "for sanitation's sake".

[3] The remains of Kozlovsky, Zakharov, Martos, Bortniansky, Karatygin, Kramskoi, Shishkin and Kuindzhi were transferred to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

[1] On August 29, 2023, Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, a businessman, the head of the Concord Group and the Wagner PMCs, was buried at the cemetery.

In the 20th century, several parts of the cemetery were destroyed; the remains of Euler and Betancourt were reburied in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

[1] An annual mourning ceremony accompanied by a picnic feast is recorded in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem Cemetery of the Smolensko Church of 1836.