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
• Mikhail Glinka - (1804-1857), composer
• Vera Komissarzhevskaya – (1864-1910), actress
• Ivan Krylov - (1769-1844), author
• Modest Mussorgsky - (1839-1881), composer
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - (1844-1908), composer
• Anton Rubinstein - (1829-1894), pianist, conductor and composer
• Fyodor Stravinsky - 1843-1902, operatic bass, father of composer Igor Stravinsky
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky - (1840-1893), composer

External links

• Online tour on Tikhvinskoye cemetery
• (Russian) Guide to the Tikhvinskoye Cemetery