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Is she mourning a loved one, crying over a lost love, worried about exams? We'll never know why this young woman came to this cemetery on the grounds of Alexander Nevsky Monastery to sit among the grave markers and spring-green grass. |
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Piskaryovskoe Cemetery is the final resting place for untold thousands of unidentified people who perished during the Siege of Leningrad in the early 1940s. But some people are known, and their graves are marked, some with their pictures on crosses, some with stones in the ground among the birches. |
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The graves of Tchaikowski (below), Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakoff (right) are among many of the composers writers and artists interred in this cemetery. |
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