What to do and see in St. Petersburg, Northwestern District: The Best Cemeteries

March 27, 2022 Jacquiline Delozier

The second largest city in Russia, St. Petersburg is the country’s cultural heart. View splendid architectural gems like the Winter Palace and the Kazan Cathedral, and give yourself plenty of time to browse the world-renowned art collection of the Hermitage. Sprawling across the Neva River delta, St. Petersburg offers enough art, nightlife, fine dining and cultural destinations for many repeat visits.
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1. Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery

Nepokoryonnykh ve., 72, St. Petersburg 195273 Russia +7 812 297-57-16 http://pmemorial.ru/
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5.0 based on 97 reviews

Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery

Nearly half a million civilians who died in the 900-day Siege of Leningrad (the city's name from 1924-1991)are remembered at this cemetery with mass graves, an eternal flame, a statue of the Motherland, and photographs and documents describing the siege.

2. Church of St. Aleksander Nevsky

Shlisselburgskoye Hwy, 217, Ust'-Izhora, St. Petersburg 196645 Russia +7 812 464-38-61 http://igora-hram.narod.ru/index.htm
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5.0 based on 6 reviews

Church of St. Aleksander Nevsky

3. Komarovo Cemetery

Ozyornaya St., 52 A, Komarovo, St. Petersburg Russia
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5.0 based on 8 reviews

Komarovo Cemetery

4. Serafimovskoye Cemetery

Zausadebnaya, 33, St. Petersburg 197183 Russia +7 812 430-31-51 http://serafimovskiy.ru/kladbishe.php
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5.0 based on 1 reviews

Serafimovskoye Cemetery

5. Holy Trinity Alexander Nevskiy Lavra

Reki Monastyrki Emb., 1, St. Petersburg 191167 Russia +7 812 274-17-02 [email protected] http://lavra.spb.ru/about/hramy-i-pamjatniki.html
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4.5 based on 394 reviews

Holy Trinity Alexander Nevskiy Lavra

This beautiful monastery complex contains cemeteries where many of Russia's greatest literary and cultural figures are buried.

Reviewed By C2002SHmarkm - Ada, United States

Easy stop off green line of subway. One of the few highly rated sites without many tour groups. Beautiful space in which to pray. We had a priest chanting prayers throughout our visit which added aural beauty as well. God is good.

6. Chapel of the Annunciation on Kuzminskoye Cemetery

Peterburgskoye Hwy., 31B, Pushkin, St. Petersburg 196605 Russia
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4.5 based on 3 reviews

Chapel of the Annunciation on Kuzminskoye Cemetery

7. St. Nicholas Cemetery (Nikolskoye Kladbishche)

Nabereznaya Reki Monastirki, 1, St. Petersburg 191167 Russia +7 906 240-01-46 [email protected] http://www.lavra.spb.ru
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4.5 based on 16 reviews

St. Nicholas Cemetery (Nikolskoye Kladbishche)

Dear guests of the city of St. Petersburg. We bring to your attention tourist building Nikolskoe cemetery. The cemetery has a regular layout. In the territory there is a pond. The Nikolskaya path leading from the main entrance to the church is oriented to the apse of the Trinity Cathedral, and thus this necropolis is included in a single ensemble of the laurels. Pond The cemetery at the beginning of the XXI century was the most neglected cemetery of the Lavra, which was originally the burial place of the Lavra clergy. Like all the cemeteries of the city, it suffered not only from neglect and lack of proper care, but also vandalism, mainly - grave digging. Back in the 1950s-1960s, in the remote corners of the cemetery, it was possible to see half-buried zinc coffins from the ground, and open crypts also represent a characteristic feature of the cemetery landscape in the first decade of the 21st century.

8. Tikhvin Cemetery/Necropolis of Masters of Art

Lavrskiy Dr. Aleksandro-Nevskaya Lavra, St. Petersburg 191167 Russia http://www.gmgs.ru/expoz/necmasis
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4.5 based on 85 reviews

Tikhvin Cemetery/Necropolis of Masters of Art

Tikhvin Cemetery is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. By the beginning of the 19th century, the Lazarevskoye Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra was overcrowded, and it was decided to allocate a new site for burial. The cemetery, originally called Novo-Lazarevsky, was laid in 1823. In 1869-1871 in the northern part of the Novo-Lazarevsky cemetery a church-tomb was built, consecrated in the name of the miraculous icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God. The money for the construction of the church in the Byzantine-Russian style was donated by the merchants Polezhaev, for whose family members 20 places with 13 graves were allocated in the tomb. In 1876, the New Lazarevskoye cemetery was renamed Tikhvin. The church was closed in 1931 and remade by post office. The grave of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Established in 1823, some of the notables buried here are: Fyodor Dostoyevsky - (1821-1881)

9. Smolyachkova F.A. Grave

Lensoveta st., 15, St. Petersburg 196000 Russia
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4.5 based on 4 reviews

Smolyachkova F.A. Grave

10. Military Cemetery Dachnoye

Narodnogo Opolcheniya Ave., 143_145, St. Petersburg Russia
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4.5 based on 4 reviews

Military Cemetery Dachnoye

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