Literary bridges of Volkovsky cemetery
Literators’ Bridges is a part of the old Volkov Cemetery, located on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, where mostly poor residents of the city were buried. In 1848, the famous literary critic and publicist Vissarion Belinsky was buried here, followed by the writers of the democratic camp Nikolai Dobrolyubov and Dmitry Pisarev. After the funeral in 1888 of Vsevolod Garshin, the paved path to their graves became known as Literary Bridges.
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Later the name spread to the entire adjacent territory of the cemetery, which became a traditional burial place for writers, scientists, cultural figures, statesmen and public figures. Famous Russian writers and poets Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Leskov, Alexander Kuprin, Leonid Andreev, Alexander Blok, and Olga Bergholtz rest here.
In addition, famous scientists Dmitry Mendeleev, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Miklukho-Maklai, Vladimir Bekhterev, Alexander Popov, Abram Ioffe, artists Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Evsei Moiseenko, sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, ballerina Agrippina Vaganova, composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, film director Grigory Kozintsev, director and artist Nikolai Akimov and many other prominent artists are buried here.
.There are also graves of public figures, Narodovists, revolutionaries (among them Georgy Plekhanov, German Lopatin, Vera Zasulich). Part of the Ulyanov family is also buried in the necropolis (Lenin’s mother Maria Alexandrovna, his sisters Anna and Olga, and son-in-law Mark Elizarov).
In the old Resurrection Church (it was built in the cemetery back in the 18th century) there is an exposition telling about famous people buried on the Literators’ Bridges.
.Visitors
- Address: 30 Rasstannaya str. “Litovsky Prospekt.”
- Tel: 766-23-83. .
- Open daily, except readings, from 1 1.00 to 17.00. Inspection – 1 h. .
- Entrance is free.
