Zavalnoye cemetery description and photos - Russia - Ural: Tobolsk (Topic)

Zavalnoe cemetery description and photos - Russia - Ural: Tobolsk. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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Zavalnoye cemetery in Tobolsk is the oldest cemetery in the city. The name of the cemetery is associated with its location beyond the former northern border of Tobolsk - an earthen rampart erected in 1688

For the first time about the Zavalny cemetery became known in 1772. Until that time, there were only parish cemeteries in the city, which were located near city churches. After an epidemic of plague that took place in Russia in 1771, the governor forbade burying the bodies of the dead near churches. The bodies had to be taken to a specially arranged cemetery located behind the Earthen Shaft.

Tobolsk necropolis is the burial place of people who glorified not only the city, but the country as a whole during their lifetime. Here are buried the writer P. Ershov, the poet P.A. Grabovsky, historian of Siberia - P.A. Slovtsov, artist and archaeologist M.S. Znamensky, poet D.P. Davydov, researcher of Siberia - A.A. Dunin-Gorkavich. At the Zavalny cemetery, the wife of A.N. Radishcheva - Elizaveta Rubanovskaya, father and sister of D.I. Mendeleev.

The cemetery contains interesting samples of gravestones in the classicist traditions of the late second half of the 18th - early 19th centuries. Since the foundation of the Zavalny cemetery, a wooden church was erected on its territory in honor of the Seven Youths of Ephesus. In 1776, by order of the Tobolsk governor D. Chicherin, it was rebuilt into a stone church. The monastery was consecrated by the Tobolsk Archbishop Varlaamov (Petrov). The cemetery temple of the Seven Youths of Ephesus is the only temple in the Tyumen region that did not close during the difficult years of persecution.

A park was built near the Zavalny cemetery, where the rotunda with the sculptural composition is located. The bronze composition is dedicated to the feat of the wives of the Decembrists who followed their husbands to distant Siberia.

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