Tikhvin Cemetery

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Tikhvin Cemetery (Тихвинское кладбище) is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The grave of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Established in 1823, some of the notables buried here are:

• Mily Balakirev - (1836-1910), composer
• Alexander Borodin - (1833-1887), composer
• César Cui - (1835-1918), composer
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - (1821-1881), author
• Mikhail Glinka - (1804-1857), composer
• Ivan Krylov - (1769-1844), author
• Modest Mussorgsky - (1839-1881), composer
• Marius Petipa - (1818-1910), French ballet choreographer
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - (1844-1908), composer
• Nikolai Rubinstein - (1835 - 1881), pianist, conductor and composer
• Anatoly Sobchak - (1937 - 2000), first Mayor of Saint Petersburg
• Fyodor Stravinsky - 1843 - 1902, operatic bass, father of composer Igor Stravinsky
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - (1840-1893), composer

External link

• () [Guide to the Tikhvinskoye Cemetery]

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