Tikhvin Cemetery
Tikhvin Cemetery (Тихвинское кладбище) is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in Saint 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 Dostoyevsky - (1821-1881), author
- Leonhard Euler - (1707-1783), mathematician and physicist
- Alexander Glazunov - (1865-1936), composer
- Mikhail Glinka - (1804-1857), composer
- Vera Komissarzhevskaya – (1864-1910), actress
- Ivan Krylov - (1769-1844), author
- Arkhip Kuindzhi - (1842-1910), artist
- Modest Mussorgsky - (1839-1881), composer
- Marius Petipa - (1818-1910), ballet master and choreographer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - (1844-1908), composer
- Anton Rubinstein - (1829-1894), pianist, conductor and composer
- Vladimir Stasov - (1824-1906), critic
- Fyodor Stravinsky - (1843-1902), operatic bass, father of composer Igor Stravinsky
- Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky - (1840-1893), composer
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Coordinates: 59°55′22″N 30°23′11″E / 59.922829°N 30.386317°E
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