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      Volkovo Cemetery and Literatorskie Mostki

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2 km🍽 0📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Old avenues of one of the city's oldest cemeteries, the graves of Turgenev, Blok and Mendeleev, a quiet Lutheran cemetery with Masonic symbols and the little Volkovka river.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Church of St Job (Iovskaya Church)
        Камчатская ул., 6А
        A cemetery church of 1885–1887 at the gates of Volkovo Cemetery.
        Five minutes from Volkovskaya metro to the cemetery gates.
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        Church of St Job (Iovskaya Church)
        © FearChild · Public domain
        • The church was built with funds from Praskovya Kryukova over the grave of her husband, the first-guild merchant Iov Kryukov.
        • The architect Ivan Aristarkhov died before construction was finished and is buried in the church undercroft.
        • The church was never closed, either in Soviet times or during the Siege.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery
        Расстанная ул. / Камчатская ул.
        🚪 entrance from Kamchatskaya Street
        One of the city's oldest cemeteries (1756): old avenues, chapels and crypts.
        Old avenues to Literatorskie Mostki.
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        Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery
        © Alandislands · CC0
        Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The cemetery was founded by a Senate decree on 11 May 1756.
        • The name comes from Volkova village and Volkovo Field, where, according to documents of the time, wolves roamed in packs.
        • "Mostki" (little bridges) was the name for the wooden planking on the muddy paths; there were the "Gypsy" and "German" mostki.
        • Construction of the stone Resurrection Church began in 1782 under Ivan Starov.
        • In 1888 the court Cossack Tikhon Sidorov, killed in the wreck of the tsar's train at Borki, was buried here.
        • The road here gave its name to Rasstannaya Street — "from the verb 'to part'".
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      5. 3
        🖼 Literatorskie Mostki Necropolis
        Расстанная ул., 30
        🆓 free entry · tours are paid; on Thursday by guided tour only
        A museum-necropolis: Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Blok, Mendeleev, Pavlov, and nearby the Resurrection Church of 1785.
        Turgenev, Blok, Mendeleev; look into the Church of the Resurrection. Closed on Thursday!
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        Literatorskie Mostki Necropolis
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        Literatorskie Mostki Necropolis
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        Literatorskie Mostki Necropolis
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • The tradition goes back to 1802, when Radishchev was buried here; his grave has not survived, and there is a cenotaph.
        • Next to Belinsky (1848) the critics Dobrolyubov (1861) and Pisarev (1868) were laid to rest — and so the section became "literary".
        • Leskov, Kuprin, Miklukho-Maklai, Bekhterev and the radio inventor Alexander Popov are also buried here.
        • In 1935 the necropolis became a museum; the remains of Blok, Goncharov and Pomyalovsky were moved here.
        • Lenin's mother Maria Ulyanova and his sisters Anna and Olga are buried at Mostki.
        • The necropolis has about 500 gravestones.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Volkovo Lutheran Cemetery
        наб. реки Волковки (вход с набережной)
        A quiet "German" cemetery with Masonic symbols on the gravestones.
        Across the Volkovka — look for compasses and triangles on the gravestones.
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        Volkovo Lutheran Cemetery
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Volkovo Lutheran Cemetery
        © Alandislands · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Volkovo Lutheran Cemetery
        © Alandislands · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The land for the cemetery was allotted in 1773, although the Petrikirche congregation had asked for it as early as 1741.
        • The first burial here was the merchant Johann Gebhard Bretfeld, and for a long time the cemetery was called Bretfeld's.
        • The Petrikirche introduced a coordinate system for the graves: its archive lets you find the burial places of at least 40,000 people.
        • In 1900 new, taller gates were built — hearses had grown taller by then.
        • In the 1920s the wooden buildings were taken apart for firewood, and the gates and chapel for brick.
        • In the 1990s a German society documented more than 2,000 monuments here.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Volkovo Merchants' Almshouse
        наб. реки Волковки, 3
        An 1881 building with Russian-style decoration on the bank of the Volkovka river.
        Russian-style architecture on the riverbank.
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        Volkovo Merchants' Almshouse
        © Reshinna · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The almshouse's first brick building was built in 1860 to a design by V. I. Eppinger.
        • The decorated front building was designed by Fyodor Habersettel and Antony Tomishko.
        • Until 1904 the Volkovka was called the Chernaya Rechka (Black River).
        • In Soviet times the building housed a children's hospital.
        • In 2004 the building was removed from the list of monuments, and in 2017, after court cases, its protected status was restored.

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