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After Dark In Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery
December 20, 2019
Amos Chapple
Russia’s most famous graveyard photographed during a winter night.
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A row of Soviet-era burials. During the Soviet period, only internment around the walls of the Kremlin was seen as more prestigious than being laid to rest in Novodevichy.
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The
dog-loving
Actor and clown Yuri Nikulin represented as smoking alongside his Giant Schnauzer.
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The final resting place of Soviet politician Nikolai Skvortsov.
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A woman walks past Novodevichy's walls after 5 p.m., when the cemetery gates close, and only the occasional patrol of a security guard breaks the stillness inside until it reopens at 9 a.m. the next morning.
Amos Chapple
Amos Chapple is a New Zealand photojournalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
ChappleA@rferl.org
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After Dark In Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery
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