Tikhvin Cemetery
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Tikhvin Cemetery (Тихвинское кладбище) is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Image:P3264416 tchaikovsky lg.jpg 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
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