Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Lazarev Cemetery, St. Petersburg

Vasili Yakovlevich Chichagov, admiral and Arctic explorer.
Another side of Admiral Chichagov's monument.
Count Alexei Ivanovich Vasiliev, finance minister.
Count Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov, statesman and field marshal.
Count Sergei Witte, Prime Minister
Leonhard Euler, mathematician.

Nikita Yakovlevich, Bichurin, AKA Father Hyacinth, missionary to China and one of the founders of sinology.






Princess Elizabeth Dolgorouky

Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova Pushkina-Lanskaya, widow of Alexander Pushkin.
(Photo Credit)

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