History. Oxford University Press, Sep 18, 2006. pp. 163–164. Media related to Donskoye Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons Donskoye Cemetery at Find a Grave...

Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin (Russian: Иван Александрович Ильин, romanized: Ivan Aleksandrovich Il'in; 9 April [O.S. 28 March] 1883 – 21 December 1954) was...

March 2003. He was buried with his family in the columbarium of the Donskoye Cemetery. In December 1986, he was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet...

immediately cremated, and his ashes dumped in a common grave at Moscow's Donskoye Cemetery. The execution remained secret and as late as 1948, Time reported...

Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartzman (Russian: Лев Леони́дович (Аронович) Шва́рцман; 25 July 1907 – 13 May 1955) was a Soviet MGB officer, notorious...

of lung cancer on 15 November 1971. His ashes were interred at the Donskoye Cemetery under his real name, next to Konon Molody who had died the previous...

Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold (Russian: Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд, romanized: Vsévolod Èmíl'evič Mejerchól'd; born German: Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold;...

the USSR. The actress died in 1984 in Moscow and was buried at the Donskoye Cemetery. A memorial plate dedicated to Ranevskaya was placed on her birthhouse...

Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel (Russian: Влади́мир О́скарович Ка́ппель, April 28 [O.S. April 16] 1883 – January 26, 1920) was a White Russian military leader...

Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Тане́ев, pronounced [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ tɐˈnʲejɪf]; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1856 – June...

1937(1937-06-12) (aged 44) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Buried Donskoye Cemetery Allegiance  Russian Empire (1914–1917)  Russian SFSR (1918–1922)  Soviet...

Vladimir's Cemetery in Jackson, New Jersey. His wife, Xenia Vasilievna Chizh (1892–1973), was buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois cemetery near Paris...

several other victims of the Great Purge in a common grave at the Donskoy Cemetery. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a plaque was placed there which...

1950(1950-08-24) (aged 59) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Buried Donskoi Cemetery Allegiance  Russian Empire (1912–1917)  Russian SFSR (1918–1922)  Soviet...

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Хи́нчин, French: Alexandre Khintchine), July 19, 1894 – November 18, 1959, was a Soviet...

September 2004 in Moscow from breast cancer. She was buried at the Donskoye Cemetery. A Groom from the Other World (Жених с того света, 1958) as Klava...

cremated on site, and the ashes were thrown into a mass grave dug at the Donskoye Cemetery. Members of the Yakir family were either immediately executed, like...

expect to "feel worse before he felt better". He is buried at the Donskoy Cemetery in Moscow next to Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher (aka Colonel Rudolf Abel)....

Aleksandr Semyonovich Kronrod (Russian: Алекса́ндр Семёнович Кронро́д; October 22, 1921 – October 6, 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist...

in the Baku Jewish Cemetery, but after some time the children decided to rebury their father's ashes in Moscow's Donskoye Cemetery. On July 1, 1894, he...

1938(1938-11-09) (aged 48) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Buried Donskoi Cemetery Allegiance  Russian Empire (1914–1915)  Soviet Union (1917–1938) Service/branch...

Miron Semyonovich Vovsi (Russian: Мирон Семёнович Вовси; May 13, 1897 in Krāslava, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire, now Latvia – June 6, 1960 in Moscow...

including the composer Dmitri Shostakovich. He was buried at the New Donskoy Cemetery, in Moscow. Even at the time, many people suspected that his death was...

grave in an ordinary coffin. Between 1925 and the opening of the Donskoye Cemetery crematorium in October 1927, interments in the wall and burials in...

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vlasov (Russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Вла́сов; 20 August [O.S. 7 August] 1908 – 22 December 1975) was a Russian, later Soviet...

Sergei Iosifovich Kartsevski (Russian: Сергей Иосифович Карцевский; French: Serge Karcevski; 18 August 1884 – 7 November 1955) was a Russian linguist who...

Germany on 18 June 1997 at the age of 85, and was buried in the New Donskoy Cemetery in Moscow. New York Times Obituary 20 June 1997 Dobson, Christopher; Miller...

future war." He was shot in Moscow the next day and buried in the Donskoye Cemetery. The Frunze Military Academy was purged. On 31 January 1957 Kork was...

Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh (Russian: Леонид Вениаминович Келдыш; 7 April 1931 – 11 November 2016) was a Soviet and Russian physicist. Keldysh was a professor...

Ernst Neizvestny said that he had been told by the director of the Donskoye Cemetery crematorium "how Penkovsky [had been] executed by 'fire'", i.e., by...