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sabotabbyI'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.
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.
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Date: 2006-05-03 10:58 pm (UTC)Khrushchev's grave is terribly ugly, too.
I rather like it.
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Date: 2006-05-03 11:00 pm (UTC)I rather like it.
Seriously?
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Date: 2006-05-03 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-03 11:08 pm (UTC)The letters are cool, though.
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Date: 2006-05-03 11:31 pm (UTC)I also like Chekhov's grave with it's roof and Gustave Klimpt-like wrought iron fence.
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Date: 2006-05-03 11:45 pm (UTC)Chekhov's grave seems perfect for him, really.
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Date: 2006-05-03 11:19 pm (UTC)It's cool that you found Kropotkin's tomb too.
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Date: 2006-05-03 11:46 pm (UTC)We had a map that showed us how to find Kropotkin. It was still a bit hard.
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Date: 2006-05-04 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 01:14 am (UTC)HISTORY WILL VINDICATE HIM!
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Date: 2006-05-04 02:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 11:22 am (UTC)i started reading it, once, got sidetracked, and have yet to get it back from a friend.
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Date: 2006-05-04 03:13 am (UTC)The last photo is entirely too goth.
I'm going to that part of the world, (well almost- Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Amsterdam) in August. I hadn't thought about cemetery tours! I'll have to plan some if I can think of some people to look for...
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Date: 2006-05-04 01:38 pm (UTC)Also, check out the Joe Hill House in Sweden. Never been, want to go.
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Date: 2006-05-04 03:32 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-04 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 04:54 am (UTC)I've always been partial to "I'm so goth, I'm dead", but your line takes the cake!
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Date: 2006-05-04 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 05:04 pm (UTC)These photos are far too pretty.
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 11:24 am (UTC)i adore eisenstein.
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Date: 2006-05-04 01:46 pm (UTC)