Novodevichy cemetery. Great russian musicians.

[Dima]

In Moscow there is a Novodevichy cemetery, which is used from Soviet times for burials of famous people (there are more than 25000 graves).
As a citizen of Moscow I have visited it in 2015 and made a short film (~ 9 minutes) about great russian musicians and composers that are buried there.

The first part of film include: Chaliapin, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Nikolay Rubinstein, Shostakovich.

You can watch the film online or download it for watching in better quality, it's ~ 288 Mb,
you need just to press button "Скачать" on page that means "Download".

Link to film in English: https://cloud.mail.ru/public/AAF5/KSMcVKmvm
Link to film in Russian: https://cloud.mail.ru/public/C3N4/Wosz5vrtD

[Hattoff]

Many thanks for that. I visited Moscow in the 1980s and tried to visit the Novodevichy cemetery to visit Prokofiev's grave but was turned away. A year later a friend of mine visited and just walked straight in!

[Dima]

Many thanks for that. I visited Moscow in the 1980s and tried to visit the Novodevichy cemetery to visit Prokofiev's grave but was turned away. A year later a friend of mine visited and just walked straight in!

Thank you.
This cemetery was closed for some years for common people and only relatives could visit graves.
It was my second try to get into it and it was succesful.
My main goal was also to visit Prokofiev's grave but I had free time and walked around the cemetery for 2-3 hours.
I had no aim to make a film until I knew the story of reburied of Chaliapin against his will.
It's strange but in this place practically no people at all and no tourists except groups of tourists from Japan (they are very curious indeed).

[vandermolen]

Miaskovsky too I think:

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=9466254&PIpi=64037474

[Dima]

Miaskovsky too I think:

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=9466254&PIpi=64037474

I have made a record on video his place of burial too, but it was not included in this part of film.
If it is important to you, you can write me and I will send you this one minute episode.

[vandermolen]

I have made a record on video his place of burial too, but it was not included in this part of film.
If it is important to you, you can write me and I will send you this one minute episode.

Thank you - I have done.

[Dima]

Thank you - I have done.

I have sent it to you by private message.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Thanks for that--very nice video! I would like to visit. Never made it to Moscow while in Russia.

I visited the Tikhvin Cemetery in St. Petersburg about 10 years ago:

Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Glazunov, Arensky, A. Rubinstein, Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, and others in various (non-musical) fields are there--not the least of whom are Fedeor Dostoyevsky and Leonhard Euler. Very beautiful cemetery and grounds. Chaliapin's flat was also in St. Petersburg.

[vandermolen]

I have sent it to you by private message.

I've seen it - fascinating. Thank you. 

[Dima]

Thanks for that--very nice video! I would like to visit. Never made it to Moscow while in Russia.

I visited the Tikhvin Cemetery in St. Petersburg about 10 years ago:

Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Glazunov, Arensky, A. Rubinstein, Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, and others in various (non-musical) fields are there--not the least of whom are Fedeor Dostoyevsky and Leonhard Euler. Very beautiful cemetery and grounds. Chaliapin's flat was also in St. Petersburg.

Thank you for watching, XB-70 Valkyrie.
I have also visited this cemetery in 2016 in St. Petersburg and may be one day will make another documentary film.
I don't want to show just video and to tell something well known, but I want to say something new,
interesting and important about all this famous people - and it's not an easy task.

[Dima]

Chaliapin's flat was also in St. Petersburg.

He was a rich man and there is a flat of Chaliapin in Moscow too. Now it is a museum. Here it is: https://yandex.ru/maps/org/dom_muzey_f_i_shalyapina/1083100906/
and this is the site of museum:
http://www.shalyapin-museum.org/