A small provincial town in France that has nothing in common with Russia except…. almost 10,000 Russian people resting in the town’s cemetery.
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Once there was a nursing home for Russian immigrants, and when its residents died, they were buried in the local cemetery. Over time, it became a “Russian cemetery.” Today, though, only those living in the town are allowed to be buried here.
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A small church, built in the style of Novgorod churches of the XV-XVI centuries, Russian names are written on the graves in Russian letters… Graves of grand dukes and princesses, tombstones and memorial complexes of Cossacks, cadets, Kornilovites, Kolchakovites, Kutepovites, Alekseevites, Wrangelites.
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Here are the graves of Ivan Bunin, the first Russian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, and many other writers – Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Viktor Nekrasov, Maximov, Teffi (Nadezhda Buchinskaya), Alexei Remizov.
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Here rest the artists Konstantin Somov, Konstantin Korovin, Andrei Lansky, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and the creators of modern French ballet – Serge Lifar, Matilda Kshesinskaya, Olga Preobrazhenskaya …
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Zinovy Peshkov, the older brother of Yakov Sverdlov, a man whose fate can be considered one of the most extraordinary in the XX century, also found his final resting place here, not far from the graves of Alexander Galich, Rudolf Nuriev and Andrei Tarkovsky.
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Sculptors, generals, thinkers, musicians, artists, soldiers – the pride of Russian culture and the embodiment of its spirit…
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It is located at a distance of about 40 km. from Paris, the duration of the trip is about 2.5 – 3 hours. There is a flower store next to the cemetery.
