History of Moscow Cemeteries. Under the Cover of Eternal Silence

23 hrs. 21 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Yury Ryabinin

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

It is rightly said: talent is born in the provinces, and dies in the capital. By the burial grounds in the capital’s cemeteries, one can study the history of Moscow—and of all Russia. This book is not just a guide to the capital’s cemeteries; it is a thorough and substantial study of the history of burials that have important aesthetic and cultural significance.

Yuriy Valeryevich Ryabinin is a native Muscovite. For many years he has studied the capital’s necropolis and tells about it in his books and publications. In his view, anyone living in the capital whose loved one is buried in Moscow’s soil may rightly be called a Muscovite. A home grave is precisely that living root planted in the earth, which allows any person to be regarded as a native resident of a given place.

Contents:

A cemetery is life
Chapter I The village is populated, but people don’t get up…
The history of burials in Moscow
Chapter II In the monastery enclosure
A ticket to the cemetery: Danilov Monastery
It was especially notable… Simonov Monastery
Old Novodevichy Novodevichy Monastery
Cemetery of one grave: Novospassky Monastery
A quiet poetry of death: Donskoy Monastery
Eternal peace on wheels: Alekseyevsky Monastery
Chapter III Untidied God’s fields
Active parish cemeteries within the territory of Moscow
Chapter IV Beyond the Kamer-Kollezhsky rampart
Sandunov millions in Moscow’s oldest cemetery: Lazarevskoye Cemetery
Resting among one’s children, away from people: Pyatnitskoye Cemetery
A pogrom as a confession of faith: Miusskoye Cemetery
How good it is to lie here: Vagankovskoye Cemetery
A bad lot was theirs… Dorogomilovskoye Cemetery
A handful of sand from Blessed Matrona’s grave: Danilovskoye Cemetery
Silence of the mysterious forest: Kalitnikovskoye Cemetery
The last stones of Semyonovskoye Cemetery
“Silence behind the Rogozhskaya outpost…” Rogozhskoye Cemetery
Two faiths in one temple: Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery
Chapter V The pantheon of builders of a bright future
All of the Soviet era in a new Donskoy: New Donskoy Cemetery
A cemetery as a reward: Novodevichy Cemetery
A foreign parish in Moscow: Golovinskoye Cemetery
And the entire land in crosses: Vostryakovskoye Cemetery
Chapter VI Everything not Russian
Memento mori: Vvedenskoye (German) Cemetery
Among stone khachkars: Armenian Cemetery
Return to dust: Jewish Dorogomilovskoye Cemetery
Under the crescent in the “liakhete”: Tatar (Muslim) Cemetery
Chapter VII “Don’t forget also, brothers…”
To the gate—to the place of parents
Under this stone
Cross and stone
In the beginning was the Word
They met: earth and flame
The dearest—memory
Chapter VII Matrona, Stalin, and the cenotaph
Index of names