Moscow Armenian Cemetery

The Armenian Cemetery (Russian Армянское кладбище ) is located in Moscow's administrative district center, district Presnensky, diagonally opposite the Russian Orthodox Wagankowoer cemetery. It is with him to the traditional burial site of the Armenian Diaspora of central Russia.

The cemetery is approximately two acres in size and historical monument in parts.

History

The Armenian cemetery was founded in the late 18th or early 19th century as an autonomous part of the adjacent and some years earlier applied Wagankowoer cemetery. While the latter initially served as a burial place for poorer Moscow population, found in the Armenian cemetery also wealthy merchants their final resting place. 1815 was the Armenian church of Moscow in the central area of the cemetery to build a church building. This still exists today and is used both as a church and as a cemetery chapel.

In the 1850s, the cemetery was fenced by a stone wall. In the late 19th century was in the cemetery near the main entrance of the building of the funeral hall made ​​of red brick. Both this and the church are now a protected monument.

Tombs

The cemetery today has a very dense tree and in addition to a variety of modern tombs historical monuments from the 19th and early 20th century. Some of the grave stones are executed in the Armenian tradition as Chatschkare, in some particularly elaborate tombs are the mausoleums rich Russian- Armenian merchants and manufacturers.

There are also on the Armenian cemetery a number of tombs of famous personalities not only of Armenian origin. So are buried here, among other things:

• Alexei Dushkin (1903-1977), architect
• Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984), world chess champion
• Andrei Platonov (1899-1951), writer
• Leonid Ramsin (1887-1948), Engineer
• Nadezhda Rumjanzewa (1930-2008), actress
• Marietta Shaginyan (1888-1982), writer
• Mikael Tariwerdijew (1931-1996), composer