CEMETERY

Location:
Moscow, Russia

Founding Date:
1898

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Andrei Bely	Author	26-Oct-1880	8-Jan-1934	Petersburg
Mikhail Bulgakov	Author	3-May-1891	10-Mar-1940	The Master and Margarita
Feodor Chaliapin	Singer	13-Feb-1873	12-Apr-1938	Operatic bass
Anton Chekhov	Playwright	17-Jan-1860	15-Jul-1904	Playwright and short story writer
Pavel A. Cherenkov	Physicist	15-Jul-1904	6-Jan-1990	Cherenkov radiation
Sergei Eisenstein	Film Director	23-Jan-1898	11-Feb-1948	Alexander Nevsky
John Field	Composer	26-Jul-1782	23-Jan-1837	Irish composer of Nocturnes
Nikolai Gogol	Author	19-Mar-1809	21-Feb-1852	Dead Souls, The Overcoat
Raisa Gorbachev	First Lady	5-Jan-1932	20-Sep-1999	First Lady of the Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko	Politician	5-Jul-1909	2-Jul-1989	Cold War Foreign Minister of the USSR
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich	Mathematician	19-Jan-1912	7-Apr-1986	Linear programming
Nikita Khrushchev	Head of State	5-Apr-1894	11-Sep-1971	Deposed leader of the Soviet Union
Peter Kropotkin	Anarchist	21-Dec-1842	8-Feb-1921	Libertarian anarchist revolutionary
Lev Landau	Physicist	22-Jan-1908	1-Apr-1968	Superfluidity of helium
Anastas Mikoyan	Politician	25-Nov-1895	21-Oct-1978	Knew where the shrimps stay in winter
Vyacheslav Molotov	Government	9-Mar-1890	8-Nov-1986	Stalin's right-hand-man
Anna Pavlova	Dancer	12-Feb-1881	22-Jan-1931	Early 20th century Russian ballerina
Sergei Prokofiev	Composer	23-Apr-1891	5-Mar-1953	Peter and the Wolf
Vsevolod Pudovkin	Film Director	28-Feb-1893	30-Jun-1953	Mother
Mstislav Rostropovich	Cellist	27-Mar-1927	27-Apr-2007	Cellist and conductor
Dmitri Shostakovich	Composer	25-Sep-1906	9-Aug-1975	Symphony No. 7
Yevgeny Svetlanov	Conductor	6-Sep-1928	3-May-2002	Director, USSR State Symphony, 1965-2002
Igor Y. Tamm	Physicist	8-Jul-1895	12-Apr-1971	Cherenkov radiation
Vladimir Tatlin	Sculptor	16-Dec-1885	31-May-1953	Monument to the Third International
Boris Yeltsin	Head of State	1-Feb-1931	23-Apr-2007	First president of post-Soviet Russia

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