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Vagankovskoye Cemetery
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Vagankovskoye Cemetery

Photographer: Bill Swersey
Russian cemeteries are quite different than those typically found in America. Most obviously, trees everywhere serve to break up the space and create a particularly tranquil, comforting atmosphere. Another interesting difference is that many tombstones have photo likenesses of the deceased or something about their life etched onto them -- powerfully linking each to a real person. Walking through a Russian cemetery, it is possible to know something about each person as you see a stone with a picture of a speed skater, then one with a violinist, a doctor, even a teen-ager behind the wheel of a car.

Many famous Russians are buried in the Vagankovskoye Cemetery, where this photo was taken. Recently, several well-known businessmen (commonly referred to as mafiosi) allegedly assassinated by their competitors have been buried in prestigious plots just inside the entrance of this old cemetery. Nearby rests the popular television host Vlad Listev, his unsolved murder two years ago said to be related to a struggle for control of Russian state television.


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