Another entry primarily concerning dead people

[sabotabby]

I'm splitting up my entry for April 20th into two parts—not because it's very long, but because for whatever reason I took a ridiculous amount of pictures that day. So this will be the entry about dead people and anarchy, and then I have an entry about monks, music, and chocolate. It was a pretty good day all around.


Thursday, April 20

Novodevichy Cemetery is where most awesome Russians are buried. We visited the graves of Mayakovsky:


I'm glad that there are a lot of flowers on it.

Bulgakov:


Gogol:


Chekhov:


Eisenstein:

I had to sit through all of Battleship Potemkin when I was in second year university. I respect the guy, though.

Prokoviev, Chaliapin (I don't have pictures of those), and Khrushchev:


He's the only dead Soviet leader not buried in the Kremlin, and the gravestone was made by a sculptor he really hated.

Pwned.

Khrushchev's grave is terribly ugly, too. I'm thinking that someone didn't like him very much.

The grave of Peter Kropotkin is unassuming and rather hard to find. In a cemetery where most headstones involve an image or bust of the deceased, Kropotkin's is a simple marble monolith.



It says nothing about his politics, and lists him as a "traveller and scientist."



I guess he was that, too. It seemed fittingly humble for a man who gave up his noble title to become an anarchist.


Paying tribute to the Anarchist Formerly Known as Prince.

Gratuitous cemetery shots:






This photo is so Goth that it shits bats.

Comments

[princealberic.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah this is awesome.

- I like Mayakovsky's grave.

- Why doesn't Bulgakov have a fancy bust or anything? Did he specifically request something simple? It's even more discreet than Kropotkin's, though I like how discreet it is.

- I had no idea Gogol was that good-looking.

- I like the swirly fence around Chekov's grave.

- the Anarchist Formerly Known as Prince <--- This is the best. Anyway, I genuinely had no idea Kropotkin was buried in Russia. For some reason, I kind of assumed he'd been exiled and was buried in Paris or some such.

[sabotabby]

Not only was Kropotkin buried in Russia, but Lenin had a state funeral for him.

LOL.

[princealberic.livejournal.com]

Wow. I wonder where my mind got this whole soap opera about his last years, in which he's exiled and dies somewhere like Paris, and Lenin doesn't like him that much -- admires him and his ideas but doesn't want him around.

Maybe I come from an alternate universe and have accidentally slipped into this dimension? This explains a lot.