- A section of the passageway between the 1st Lavrsky Bridge and Necropolis of the Masters of Arts
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59.922792966306, 30.386925848954 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Sign next to the wall with the City Museum of Urban Sculpture invitation. Text in English
- Widow's surname
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Lanskaya
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Historical background
It was Peter the Great who chose the site for a future monastery back in 1704. In 1715, the construction of the stone building of the church was started upon the project by Domenico Trezzini. In 1723, the tsar ordered to transfer the relics of Holy Blessed Prince Aleksandr Nevsky to the monastery. They were placed in the newly built Holy Trinity Cathedral. In 1756–1758, a new wooden Annunciation Church was built to the north of the old one which was taken down back then. It served as a parish church up until 1787, when it was taken down as well. After that, Lazarevskaya church reconstruction took place (1787–1789). In 1783–1786 the Holy Gate of the monastery was erected, that is, the gatehouse church in the honour of the icon of the Virgin of Consolation of All Sorrows. Meanwhile, stone fences were erected setting the ultimate boundaries of the Lazarevsky Cemetery which occupied the entire territory of the former monastery yard. On December 8, 1797, by the Imperial Edict of Emperor Paul I issued to the Holy Governing Synod, the Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery was renamed to Lavra.
Soon after the founding of the monastery, a convent school was established. It formed the basis of all educational institutions in the capital. In the same year, 1797, it became the Aleksandr Nevsky Theological Academy.
In 1932, it was decided to construct the Masters of Arts Necropolis at the site of Tikhvin Cemetery, founded by the Lavra in 1823. The arrangement of Necropolis involved relocation of monuments from several cemeteries, including the Sergius Desert cemetery, Farforovskoye, Mitrofanievskoye, Malookhtinskoye, Vyborgskoye (Roman Catholic), Smolenskoye (Orthodox, Lutheran, and Armenian), Volkovskoye (Orthodox and Lutheran), Novodevichie, Nikolskyoye and Georgievskoye cemetery (at Bolshaya Okhta). Numerous graves were destroyed at the cemetery during that period, as the authorities considered them historically insignificant.
Nikolai Gnedich who translated the ‘Iliad’, Fyodor Dostoevsky, poetess Elisabeth Kulmann, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Mikhail Glinka, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Musorgsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and many others are buried here.
Present in routes of categories Lion & Unicorn