The Taganrog Old Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the outskirts of Taganrog's historical downtown district that was closed for new burials in 1971.

History

The cemetery was officially established in 1809 as a Christian cemetery, although the site has already had some burials. In 1810 the All Saints' Church in Taganrog on the cemetery's land was founded, which was consecrated and completed in 1824. After Taganrog had been captured by the Red Army in late 1919, the cemetery was used for all interments. After the Second World War, several monuments and a traditional Soviet eternal flame were established on the cemetery territory. On May 25, 1971 the cemetery was closed for new interments. In 1980's some of the older monuments were saved from destruction and desecration by being transferred into the inner yard of the

Taganrog Museum of Art Taganrog Museum of Art (russian: Таганрогский художественный музей) was officially inaugurated in 1968, but the basis of the museum collection was formed by the end of the 19th century, when the art department of the ...

Current state

Despite the inclusion of the historic cemetery into the register of architectural monuments, it has been severely damaged, looted and littered. File:burial place of the Turkin family at Taganrog Old Cemetery.jpg, burial place of the Turkin family File:Grave of Maria Komnino-Varvatsi.jpg, Grave of Maria Komnino-Varvatsi, a descendant of Ioannis Varvakis File:Grave of Maria Alferaki.jpg, Grave of Maria Alferaki, mother of Sergei Alferaki and

Achilles Alferaki Achilles Nikolayevich Alferaki ("Achilles" sometimes spelled Akhilles or Ahilles) (July 3, 1846, Kharkov, Russian Empire – December 27, 1919, Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union) was a Russian composer and mayor of Greek descent. His brother ...

File:Taganrog_Museum_Art_inner_yard_1.jpg, Monuments displaced into

's inner yard

Prominent people buried in Taganrog Old Cemetery

Paul von Rennenkampff Paul Georg Edler von Rennenkampf ( rus, Па́вел Ка́рлович Ренненка́мпф, r=Pavel Karlovich Rennenkampf, p=ˈpavʲɪɫ ̍karɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈrʲennʲenˈkampf; – 1 April 1918) was a Baltic German nobleman, statesman a ...

– Baltic German general Установлено место захоронения генерала П.К. Ренненкампфа
/ref> * Saint Pavel of Taganrog (later relics transferred into St. Nicholas Church, Taganrog) * Seraphima Blonskaya – Russian artist *

Lev Kulchitsky Lev Yakovlevich Kulchitsky (, ) was a rear admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy and member of the Imperial Admiralty Council, the supreme administrative body of the Imperial Navy. Kulchitsky also served as the 13th mayor of Taganrog, a port cit ...

– Russian admiral, 13th Governor of Taganrog * Konstantin Igelström – Decembrist * Ivan Vasilenko – Soviet writer * Alexander Lakier – founder of Russian

heraldry Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branch ...

* Anatoly Durov – animal trainer

External links and references

В.С.Кукушин, А.И.Николаенко "Таганрогский некрополь XIX–XXвв. Историко–художественный очерк", Таганрог, "Лукоморье" 2006
* Таганрог. Энциклопедия, Таганрог, издательство АНТОН, 2008 {{Taganrog Buildings and structures in Taganrog Eastern Orthodox cemeteries Cemeteries in Russia Cultural heritage monuments in Taganrog Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Rostov Oblast