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Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Saint Petersburg Royalty Free Stock Photo

View of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, sunny march afternoon. Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Saint Petersburg Royalty Free Stock Photo

Trinity Cathedral and Nicholas The Wonderworker`s church in Alexander Nevsky Lavra in the April afternoon. St. Petersburg Royalty Free Stock Photo

Saint-Petersburg. Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Royalty Free Stock Photo

Saint-Petersburg. Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra

Monuments of the Nikolskoe Cemetery and the Church of Saint Nicholas in Saint Petersburg Royalty Free Stock Photo

In 1861, due to the lack of places in the cemeteries of the Lavra, it was decided to allocate a place between the Neva River and the fence of the monastery for burial. A clear plan, broken down into categories, was drawn up by the diocesan architect G. I. Karpov. Since 1868, the cemetery was called Zasoborny, and in 1877 it was named Nikolsky after the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, built in 1868-1871 according to the project of G. I. Karpov on the territory of the merchant N. I. Rusanov. Among those buried at the Nikolsky cemetery are writers, artists, military figures, and a magazine