🏛 Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery

наб. р. Смоленки, 1

The city's oldest non-Orthodox cemetery (1747): gravestones of the Nobels and Fabergés, crypts and the "German's gazebo" from the film "Brother".

The site for the cemetery was allotted by the architect Pietro Trezzini in 1748; on an 1753 plan it is labelled "German Cemetery".
Euler, Bétancourt and Thomas de Thomon were moved from here to the necropolis of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in the 1930s–1980s.
The cemetery was closed to burials in 1939, and in 1985 part of its territory was given over to building a fire station.
In the mid-1990s the Swedish Nobel Family Society gave money to restore the gravestone of Alfred Nobel's elder brother.
The canopy over the von Beckmann family grave became famous after "Brother": it's where Danila talks to the German.
Children killed in the shelling of 9 May 1942 are buried here; a monument to them was erected in 1966.

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