KAZANSKOE CEMETERY. Cemetery in the town of Pushkin (1 Gusarskaya Street). The area consists of 35 hectares. It has existed from 1785. It is named after the Kazan Church and Burial Vault (1785-1790), built over the crypt of A.D. Lanskoy (1758-1784), who held the favour of Empress Catherine II. The mausoleum, bell tower and gates at the fence have all survived. To the South of the Orthodox Kazanskoe Cemetery sections for other denominations are situated, including the Lutheran, Muslim, and Jewish sections, which were later united. In 1914-1916, the Communal Cemetery for Soldiers was arranged in the cemetery"s northwest section (not preserved). Common graves and graves of participants of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 were placed in the eastern part. The high Yuryevsky Princes family crypt has survived (1879, Y.F. Bruni), as has the Orlov-Davydov Counts rotunda-mausoleum (1910, A.A. Grubbe). Also buried at Kazanskoe cemetery are the poet I.F. Annensky, artist P.P. Chistyakov, Lithuanian poet Y. Yanonis (tomb stone by sculptor B. Vishnyauskas, 1963), writers O.D. Forsch, A.R. Belyaev, S.M. Alyansky, T.G. Gnedich, T.K. Galushko, and M.P. Rudenskaya (historian of the Pushkin Lyceum Museum), cameraman A.N. Moskvin, and artist O.N. Gildebrand-Arbenina.
References: Пирютко Ю. М. Царскосельский некрополь // Петербургские чтения-96. СПб., 1996. С. 278-280; Казанское кладбище в Царском Селе/Сост.: А. Ю. Егоров, Н. А. Давыдова. СПб., 2003.
Y. M. Piryutko.
Persons
Alyansky Samuil Mironovich Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich Belyaev Alexander Romanovich Bruni Yuly Fedorovich Catherine II, Empress Chistyakov Pavel Petrovich Forsh Olga Dmitrievna Galushko Tatyana Konstantinovna Gildebrand-Arbenina Olga Nikolaevna Gnedich Tatyana Grigorievna Grube Artur Alexandrovich Lanskoy Alexander Dmitrievich Moskvin Andrey Nikolaevich Rudenskaya Marina Petrovna the Orlov-Davydovs the Yuryevskys, Dukes Vishnyauskas Bronyus Danelyaus Yanonis Yulyus
Addresses
Gusarskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 1
