The cemetery is a sad place. Everyone, passing through his gate, will unwittingly think about a temporary stay on the earth's surface and about the eternal peace that is coming each living person.
Before God, everyone is equal, but the order in ourthe imperfect world is established by people. Therefore, the dead are buried in different ways. And it is good if the organizers of the mourning event are guided by the merits to society that the deceased gained during his lifetime. It happens otherwise when the issue is solved solely for money.
Today there is no longer buried. There is a columbarium, it is possible to install an urn with ashes in it.
Кунцевское кладбище в Москве не считается самым a prestigious burial site, it is ahead in the absurd at first glance, the rating of Novodevichy, Vagankovsky and, perhaps, some others. However, the last can not call it. A lot of famous people are buried here. Rare idle onlookers rarely come here, only loyal fans visit the last resting place of their idol.
Kuntsevo Cemetery is located in the westcapital Cities. Once this place was not Moscow, here stood the village of Spasskoye with its graveyard. In the 17th century, the first dead went to this land. Funeral them in the Church of the Savior on Setun, hence the first name (Setunskoe), which lasted until the twenties of the last century. The name arose as a derivative of Kuntsev, a city that later became a Moscow district.
During the period of the Russian EmpireThe Kuntsevo cemetery has received into its land many remarkable sons and daughters of our country, both famous and ordinary, not particularly famous for anything. Historically formed two parts - the old and the new. Today its area exceeds 16 hectares.
Old Kuntsevo cemetery sheltered the author"Dunno" N.N. Nosova and known to those who remember the seventies, journalist Tatyana Tess. Dmitry Kholodov, a reporter who died tragically in the nineties, was buried here.
With the author of the memories of the Stalinist camps V. T.Shalamov here is no longer arguing inflexible Bolsheviks, including G. M. Malenkov. Next to the graves of warriors who gave their lives in the fight against fascism are scouts - a member of the "Oxford Five" Kim Philby and Ramon Mercader (Lopez), whose ice ax did not flinch, piercing the skull of Leon Trotsky. The memorial to the defenders of the motherland is crowned by a military station.
It is difficult to list all the famous cultural figures for whom the Kuntsevo Cemetery became the last abode. There are graves of celebrities in the new part of it.
Here everyone can visit those who madecolor of Soviet art. Actors Yevgeny Morgunov, Gleb Strizhenov, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Zinovy Gerdt, Valentin Filatov, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky coexist with musicians and bards Yuri Vizbor, Valery Obodzinsky, Yevgeny Martynov, Zhenya Belousov, songwriter M. Matusovsky. Film directors Protazanov, Gaidai and Basov also rest in peace here. The great hockey player Kharlamov is their company.
So, through the centuries, the rural Setunsky, and later Kuntsevo cemetery became a real necropolis, which gathered the remains of many famous people in their land.
