Kuzminskoe cemetery - one of the oldest in the Leningrad region.Its name it inherited from the name of the settlement, which was located near the river Kuzminki in the XVIII century.Then, in the fifties of the same century, it became Tsarskoye Selo, thus denoting an increase in the number of "inhabitants" of the latter.For the same reason the churchyard was postponed several times, forbidding burial within the imperial summer residence.In the era of Catherine the Great Kuzminskoe cemetery moved across the river.
Paul did not favor a man-made creation mother, Sofia, which is intended by the Empress was supposed to be a model for all power, fell into neglect.This does not mean that life in Tsarskoye Selo is completely stopped.People still lived here, and the place became their final resting place after a funeral service in the Church of the Sign, Kuzminskoe cemetery.The same applies to the priests serving in the temple, has long been considered the court.
Particularly noteworthy architects to erect Tsarskoye Selo and build its skyline.The first of these lay in consecrated ground in 1782 Vasily Neelov.His tomb is protected by the state as a monument to history.The architects of the late period, Alexander Romanovich Bach and son, has continued his father's business, are buried in the late thirties of the XX century.
Though ancient, but not very famous Kuzminskoe cemetery.List graves almost no names that the modern man, as they say, "by ear", although this is not always deserved.Visitors should commemorate Niktopoliona Svyatskaya - the poet, the hero of a disabled Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, the present Russian nobleman.He was paralyzed, his hands could not write, and creating his wonderful works, full of piercing feelings of love, holding a pen in his mouth.
book publisher Peter Soykin also deserves respect as a man who did a lot for culture and education in our country.It is to him we owe the three-volume A. Brehm "Animal Life", the first in the Russian editions of Jules Verne science fiction novels of Charles Dickens.
Kuzminskoe cemetery visited by Nikolai Gumilyov, was buried his father.
Then came the October coup, and the ruthlessness of the new government to the people added cruelty to their memory.Was no exception Kuzminskoe cemetery.Pushkin - the so-called Tsarskoye Selo in 1937.For the Bolsheviks old graves values are not represented, and, guided by the materialist world outlook, they are allowed to destroy the tombs, using valuable species of stone again.In the years of atheism in the cemetery crosses massively destroyed, and the temple was looted in 1923.In 1939 it was closed - they thought the then home life forever.
During the Great Patriotic War took place here line of defense of besieged Leningrad.Kuzminskoe cemetery took fights and bombing victims.The dead were buried in mass graves.
Then there were decades of neglect.In the eighties of the XX century the city has grown, about an old cemetery remembered, and here again were buried.On the basis of the destroyed during the fighting of the Annunciation Church in 2007 built a chapel, autumn is all lying in the land, both known and unknown.Yes, it is the eternal memory and eternal rest!
