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Memorial to the Victims f the 9th of January Massacre: Preobrazhenskoye Kladbishche (Cemetery)

Saint PetersburgBy adminSeptember 27, 2011Leave a comment

In the dead of night on January 10, 1905, following the Bloody Sunday, the police brought to the cemetery the corpses of the massacred workers. Wrapped in sack-cloth the corpses were thrown into hurriedly dug pits. On the day of his return to Russia from exile (November 8, 1905) V. I. Lenin went to the…

Necropolis of the People who Died in the Days of the Leningrad Blockade. Piskarevskoye Kladbishche (Cemetery).

Saint PetersburgBy adminSeptember 19, 2011Leave a comment

On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the victorious completion of the Great Patriotic War, on May 9, 1960, a torch was lit at the eternal fire burning on the Field of Mars; carried through the entire city, the torch was brought to the Piskarevskoye Cemetery in the Vyborg District. Here the ceremony was…

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