cemetery - a place of grief.Anyone passing through its gates, involuntarily think about the temporary stay on the ground and the upcoming each living people eternal rest.
Before God all are equal, but the order in our imperfect world, people set.Therefore, the dead were buried in different ways.And well, if the organizers of the funeral activities are guided by service to the community, found that late in life.It happens differently when the issue is resolved solely for the money.
Today it is not buried.There columbarium, it is possible to set the urn with the ashes.
Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow is not considered the most prestigious burial place, ahead of him in the absurd at first glance, the ranking Novodevichy, Vagankovsky and maybe some others.However, the latter can not say.A lot of famous people are buried here.These rarely come idle onlookers only devoted fans visit the final resting place of their idol.
Kuntsevo Cemetery Located in the west of the capital.Once upon a time this place was not Moscow, here stood the village Spassky with his visit.In the XVII century in the land went to the first dead.Funeral them in the Church of the Savior on the Setun, hence the first name (Setunsky), which lasted until the twenties of the last century.The name arose as a derivative of Kuntsevo, the city later became the Moscow area.
During the period of the Russian Empire Kuntsevo Cemetery taken to the land of many great sons and daughters of our country as the famous and ordinary, nothing special glorified.Historically formed two parts - old and new.Today, with an area exceeding 16 hectares.
old Kuntsevo Cemetery sheltered author "Dunno" N.Bow and known to those who remember the seventies, journalist Tatiana Tess.Here he is buried who died tragically in the nineties reporter Dmitry Kholodov.
From the author of memoirs about Stalin's camps VT Shalamov are not arguing diehard Bolshevik, including and GM Malenkov.Near the graves of soldiers who gave their lives in the struggle against fascism, lay Scouts - a member of "the Oxford five" Kim Philby and Ramon Mercader (Lopez), whose ice pick did not flinch, dug into the skull of Leon Trotsky.Memorial to the defenders of the motherland crowned military site.
difficult to list all known cultural figures, to which the final abode was Kuntsevo Cemetery.The graves of celebrities have in the new part.
Everyone can visit those who made the color of Soviet art.Actor Yevgeny Morgunov, Gleb Strizhenov Alexander Kajdanovsky, Zinovy Gerdt, Valentin Filatov, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky coexist with musicians and bards Yuri Vizbor, Valery Obodzinskii, Evgeny Martynov, Zhenya Belousov, songwriter ML Matusovskiy.Here we laid to rest Protazanov filmmakers, and Bass Gaidai.Great hockey Kharlamov makes them company.
So through the centuries agriculture Setunsky and later Kuntsevo Cemetery was a real necropolis, gathered in their land remains of many famous people.
