Tikhvin Cemetery

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fr:Cimetière Tikhvine

Tikhvin Cemetery (Тихвинское кладбище) is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Established in 1823, some of the notables buried here are:

• Mily Balakirev - (1836-1910), composer
• Alexander Borodin - (1833-1887), composer
• César Cui - (1835-1918), composer
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - (1821-1881), author
• Mikhail Glinka - (1804-1857), composer
• Ivan Krylov - (1769-1844), author
• Modest Mussorgsky - (1839-1881), composer
• Marius Petipa - (1818-1910), French ballet choreographer
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - (1844-1908), composer
• Nikolai Rubinstein - (1835 - 1881), pianist, conductor and composer
• Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky - 1843 - 1902, operatic bass, father of composer Igor Stravinsky
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - (1840-1893), composer

See also: List of other famous cemeteries

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