8Novodevichy Convent and Cemetery, Moscow, Russia
First things first. We are talking about the Novodevichy Cemetery from Moscow, not about the one in Saint Petersburg.
This famous cemetery, located in Moscow, Russia, lies next to the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent.
The Novodevichy Convent is the city’s 3rd most popular tourist site.
Designed by Ivan Maskov, the Novodevichy Cemetery was inaugurated in 1898, featuring stunning monuments of Nadezha Alliluyeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Artem Mikoyan, Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Gogol and other important Russian politicians, writers, musicians and poets.
