Location : LITERARY BRIDGES AT VOLKOVSKY CEMETERY
Saint Petersburg.
The Literatorskiye Mostki section is considered a necropolis museum: here are the graves of many famous personalities, including the mother of Lenin, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, and his sisters, Olga and Anna.
The cemetery sections were called “walkways,” since wooden planks — walkways — were laid on cemetery paths in order to go along them in any weather. The first on this site was Alexander Radishchev buried in 1802, then in the middle of the XVIII century – Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolai Dobrolyubov. The cemetery site was called Literary Bridges, however, not only writers were buried here, but also musicians and public figures. So, it is here that the graves of the revolutionary and terrorist Vera Zasulich, the revolutionary Socialist Revolutionary Nikolai Tyutchev are located.
In 1891, Olga Ulyanova, who had died of typhoid fever at the age of nineteen, was buried on Literatorny Mostki. Interestingly, she died on the fourth anniversary of the execution of Alexander Ulyanov, the eldest child of the Ulyanov family. In 1916, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, who died 82 years of age, was buried next to her daughter. After returning from exile in April 1917, Vladimir Ilyich visited the graves of his mother and sister. Lenin’s companion Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich writes in his Memoirs of Lenin: “Finally, Vladimir Ilyich came to Petrograd. He was solemnly met by the revolutionary proletariat, sailors and soldiers. The first evening and the first night passed: rallies, speeches, calls, oaths, memoirs. And then came the first day of the free stay of Vladimir Ilyich in Petrograd. He called me and asked me to send a car, and I knew
In 1918, Mark Elizarov, the husband of Anna, the elder sister of Lenin, was buried on the Literary Bridges, and after seventeen years, Anna Ulyanova-Elizarova herself was buried in the Ulyanov family necropolis. Both actively participated in the revolutionary movement. In 1952, a memorial to the sculptor M. Manizer and architect V. Kirkhoglani was erected over the graves of the Lenin family, which can still be seen here.
In total, there are about 500 gravestones in the territory of a relatively small area. Some names on the gravestones of Literary Bridges are known around the world: it is here that the writers Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Alexander Kuprin, scientists Dmitry Mendeleev, Ivan Pavlov and Alexander Popov, the traveler Nikolai Miklukho-Maklay, the poets Alexander Blok and Semen Nadson are buried , politician and publicist Georgy Plekhanov.
The status of the museum acquired a cemetery plot in the 30s.