Russia’s most famous graveyard photographed during a winter night.
After Dark In Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery
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Every December, Moscow’s winter sun sets at around 4 p.m. But the cemetery -- with its some 27,000 graves -- can be explored under the faint glow of the city outside until 5 p.m when it closes.
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This is the grave of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev -- the cemetery is the last resting place for many people who were household names in Russia and the Soviet Union, including Anton Chekov, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Sergei Prokofiev, and Boris Yeltsin.
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The burial site of Valery Legasov, who led the investigation into the Chernobyl disaster before his suicide in 1988. The plot now reportedly receives more than 100 visits each day, after the broadcast earlier this year of the immensely popular HBO’s miniseries about the 1986 nuclear disaster.
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The elaborate grave of actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who played a spy in a famous Soviet television series.
