Mginskaya ul., 4  

59.900722, 30.371479 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Poster under the address sign
Tramway side number
8912

Историческая справка

In the north-east part of the Frunzensky District you can find Volkovo Cemeteries/Volkovskiye kladbishcha — the oldest functioning cemeteries in Saint Petersburg. They include two vast yards (Orthodox and Lutheran) divided by the Volkovka River. The most famous part of the Orthodox cemetery built in 1756 is Literatorskie mostki (writers’ footways) — burials of Russian and Soviet writers, musicians, actors, architects, scientists and public leaders. Apart from that, Literatorskie mostki also include burials of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s mother and sister.
Lutheran Volkovo Cemetery was established in 1772 after the closure of Sampsonievskoye German Cemetery used for the burial of non-Orthodox people. Volkovo Cemetery was used to bury members of Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul on Nevsky prospekt and Church of St. Anne on ulitsa Furshatskaya, as well as Catholics of Church of St. Catherine on Nevsky prospekt (one of cemetery lanes is called Katolicheskaya meaning Catholic).
In 1920–1930 a number of burials and monuments were destroyed and the remains of Anton Delvig, Karl Ivanovich Rossi, and other prominent personalities were moved from the cemetery to museum necropolises. Among others, on Lutheran Volkovo Cemetery were buried: famous navigator Fyodor Petrovich Litke, field marshal Ivan Ivanovich Dibich-Zabalkansky, philologist Aleksandr Khristoforovich Vostokov, journalist and publisher Nikolay Ivanovich Gretsch, physician Yakov Vasilyevich Wylie, architect Albert Katerinovich Kavos, paediatrist Karl Andreyevich Rauchfuss, and physician Alla Nickolayevna Shabanova. On the cemetery you can find tombstones from 18-19 centuries by David Ivanovich Visconti, Luigi Ruska, and other architects.
In 1787 Old Believers Bezpopovtsy Vorobyev and Volkov established Old Believers Volkovo Cemetery to the north of Lutheran Cemetery. Split poorhouses for men and women with meeting houses were built on it. Volkovo Skete became the centre of the Old Believers Fedoseevtsy movement in Saint Petersburg. By 1917 Volkovo Poorhouse had the largest collection of old icons. The poorhouse was closed in 1930s. According to canons of Old Believers the cemetery featured wooden crosses with reliefs and inscriptions. They were made in the form of golubets — carved wooden post with gabled cover and copper cross featuring a crucifix. By the early 1990s all old monuments were lost.

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