# List of burials at Tikhvin Cemetery

Tikhvin Cemetery (Russian: Тихвинское кладбище) is a historic cemetery in the centre of Saint Petersburg. It is part of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra and contains a large number of burials, including many notable Russian figures. It is administered by the State Museum of Urban Sculpture [ru], which refers to it as the Necropolis of the Masters of Art (Russian: Некрополь мастеров искусств).
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was a popular burial site for statesmen and military personnel. Among those buried here were naval officers Fyodor Dubasov, Yuri Lisyansky, Pyotr Ricord, Zinovy Rozhestvensky and Alexei Senyavin; army officers Apostol Kostanda, Nikolay Leontiev, Valerian Madatov and Alexander Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky; and statesmen Alexander Abaza, Dmitry Bludov, Pavel Demidov, Ivan Durnovo, Mikhail Speransky and Pyotr Valuyev. Relatively few of these graves have survived to the present day. Scientists Sergey Lebedev and Ivan Tarkhanov were also buried here.
The cemetery is most famous for its representatives from the arts world, some of whom were originally buried here, while others were reinterred here during the Soviet period. Composers and musicians buried in the cemetery include Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anton Rubinstein and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Actors and performers Varvara Asenkova, Nikolay Cherkasov, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Marius Petipa and Georgy Tovstonogov are buried here, as are painters and sculptors Mikhail Avilov, Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Alexander Ivanov, Ivan Kramskoi, Boris Kustodiev and Ivan Shishkin. Luminaries from the world of literature represented in the cemetery include Yevgeny Baratynsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Gorbunov, Nikolay Karamzin, Ivan Krylov and Vladimir Stasov. The early feminist Nadezhda Stasova is also buried at Tikhvin.

## Establishment

The cemetery opened in 1823 to relieve overcrowding in the monastery's Lazarevskoe Cemetery. Initially called the "New Lazarevsky" (Russian: Ново-Лазаревским), it quickly expanded to cover a large area. Its cemetery church was consecrated in 1871 in the name of the icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God, from which the cemetery took its name. Burials initially took place in the eastern part of the cemetery, and in 1826 the writer Nikolay Karamzin was buried in the cemetery, followed in 1833 by Nikolay Gnedich, a contemporary of Alexander Pushkin's. From then on a number of figures associated with the arts' world were buried there, including Pushkin's contemporaries Ivan Krylov, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Pyotr Pletnyov, and Alexey Olenin. In 1844 another contemporary poet of Pushkin's, Yevgeny Baratynsky, was buried in the cemetery.
Over time the cemetery became a popular and prestigious burial ground for those of many areas of society. The wealthy merchant A.I. Kosikovsky was buried under a monumental sarcophagus on a high pedestal surmounted by a canopy on eight fluted columns. Opposite it stood a similarly grand monument to the statesman Pavel Demidov, which has since been lost. In 1857 the remains of the composer Mikhail Glinka were returned from Berlin and buried in the cemetery, with a grand monument erected two years later to the design of architect I. I. Gornostayev, with sculptures by Nikolay Laveretsky. On 1 February 1881 the author Fyodor Dostoevsky was buried in the cemetery, with a similarly large monument. During the 1880s composers Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin were buried in the northern part of the grounds, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky following in 1891.
By the beginning of the 20th century the Tikhvin cemetery contained 1,325 monuments of various designs and sizes, including monumental crosses on pedestals, sarcophagi and steles. There were several family plots with chapels and large crypts of granite and marble.

## Soviet necropolis

During the early Soviet period a number of monuments were stolen or destroyed. The cemetery was officially closed for burials in 1927, though they continued until 1932, and it was decided to turn it into a necropolis museum, displaying historically and artistically significant graves. Alongside this was concept of gathering together the graves of the friends and contemporaries of Alexander Pushkin for the 1937 centenary commemorations of the poet's death. The architectural and planning department of Lensovet, the city administration, was tasked with creating a memorial park project. Plans were drawn up by architects E.N. Sandler and E.K. Reimers, with further input from the city's chief architect L.A. Ilyin. The Funeral Affair Trust was established to run the necropolis museum, including removing abandoned gravestones for sale as building materials. The reconstruction radically altered the nature and appearance of the Tikhvin cemetery. With the intention being to create an "artists' necropolis", graves of those from other sections of society were removed. Fewer than a hundred of the original monuments were preserved. Meanwhile, the remains of prominent artists, sculptors, composers and musicians were reburied in the cemetery. Among them were personal friends of Pushkin, including Konstantin Danzas, Anton Delvig, and Fyodor Matyushkin.
The organisers were faced with the problem that despite designating the cemetery to be the artists' necropolis, historically the Tikhvin had primarily been the burial ground of statesmen, military leaders, scientists, and composers. There were relatively few graves of writers, who had tended to prefer the Smolensky Cemetery; or artists, who had traditionally chosen the Nikolskoe or Novodevichy Cemetery. This necessitated the transfer of a large number of burials and monuments, which took place in two main periods, from 1936 to 1941 and from 1948 to 1952. There were also several burials of prominent Soviet citizens, as the cemetery gained the status of an urban pantheon. Those buried here included the scientist Sergey Lebedev in 1934, artist Mikhail Avilov in 1954, and actor Nikolay Cherkasov in 1966. In 1972 the remains of the composer Alexander Glazunov were transferred from Paris. In 1968 Fyodor Dostoevsky's wife Anna Dostoevskaya was reburied next to her husband, while theatre director Georgy Tovstonogov was interred in the cemetery in 1989. So far Tovstonogov's has been the last burial to take place in the cemetery.

## Military

| Name | Born | Died | Occupation |
| Aleksandr Burago | 1846 | 1883 | Military officer, captain, Russo-Turkish War, Battle of Plovdiv. |
| Konstantin Danzas | 1801 | 1870 | Military officer, Major General, friend of Alexander Pushkin. Originally buried in the Vyborg Roman Catholic cemetery [ru], transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not the original. |
| Fyodor Dubasov | 1845 | 1912 | Naval officer, admiral, Pacific Ocean Squadron, Moscow uprising of 1905, Governor-General of Moscow. |
| Aleksei Ignatiev | 1842 | 1906 | Military officer, general of cavalry, Governor-General of Irkutsk, of Southwestern Krai, member of the State Council. |
| Apostol Kostanda | 1817 | 1898 | Military officer, general of artilery, commander of the Moscow Military District. |
| Nikolay Leontiev | 1862 | 1910 | Military officer, Boxer Rebellion, Russo-Japanese War. Geographer and traveller, explorer of Africa, writer. |
| Yuri Lisyansky | 1773 | 1837 | Naval officer and explorer, first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth. |
| Valerian Madatov | 1782 | 1829 | Military officer, lieutenant general, Russo-Turkish War, Russo-Persian War. Monument is not original. |
| Fyodor Matyushkin | 1799 | 1872 | Naval officer, admiral, explorer, associate of Alexander Pushkin. Ferdinand von Wrangel, Russo-Turkish War, Chairman of the Naval Scientific Committee, senator. Originally buried in the Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1950. |
| Alexander Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky | 1789 | 1848 | Military officer, Lieutenant General, senator, military writer, historian and author. |
| Pyotr Ricord | 1776 | 1855 | Naval officer, admiral, traveller, scientist, diplomat, writer, shipbuilder, statesman, and public figure. |
| Zinovy Rozhestvensky | 1848 | 1909 | Naval officer, admiral, Russo-Japanese War, Second Pacific Squadron, Battle of Tsushima. |
| Alexander Sablukov | 1783 | 1857 | Military officer, Lieutenant General, engineer and inventor. Centrifugal fan, centrifugal pump. |
| Alexei Senyavin | 1716 | 1797 | Naval officer, admiral, Russo-Turkish War, Admiralty Board. Originally buried in the Lazarevskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1831. |

## Scientists

| Name | Born | Died | Occupation |
| Vitaly Khlopin | 1890 | 1950 | Radiochemist, professor, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labour, and director of the Academy of Sciences's Radium Institute. |
| Sergey Lebedev | 1874 | 1934 | Chemist, inventor of polybutadiene synthetic rubber. Women's Pedagogical Institute, Saint Petersburg Academy for Military Medicine, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Order of Lenin. |
| Ivan Tarkhanov | 1846 | 1908 | Physiologist and science populariser. Head of the Department of Physiology at the Academy of Military Medicine, discovery of the skin galvanic reflex, influence of X-rays on the central nervous system, animal behavior, the heart and circulation, and embryonic development. |
| Nadezhda Ziber-Shumova | 1856 | 1916 | Biochemist, Institute of Experimental Medicine. Blood pigments and derivatives, oxidases and other enzymes, the biology of fermentation and decay, the chemical composition of bacteria, toxins and antitoxins, the pathogenicity of microorganisms. |

## Statesmen and politicians

| Name | Born | Died | Occupation |
| Alexander Abaza | 1821 | 1895 | Liberal advisor of Alexander II of Russia. Minister of finance, State Comptroller, chairman of State Council's Department of the State Economy. |
| Dmitry Bludov | 1785 | 1864 | Statesman, Deputy Education Minister, Minister of Justice, Minister of the Interior, Chief of the Second Section, President of the Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the State Council. Founding member of the Arzamas Society, Ambassador to Britain. |
| Pavel Demidov | 1798 | 1840 | Statesman, noble, military officer, battle of Borodino, governor of Kursk province, founder of the Demidov Prize, State Councillor. |
| Ivan Durnovo | 1835 | 1903 | Statesman, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Governor of Chernigov Governorate and Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Deputy Minister of Interior. |
| Pyotr Kikin | 1775 | 1834 | Statesman, military officer, general. Battle of Borodino, Battle of Lützen. Secretary of State, chairman of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, member of the Free Economic Society. |
| Alexey Olenin | 1763 | 1843 | Military officer, artist, archaeologist, historian and writer, director of the Imperial Public Library, president of the Imperial Academy of Arts. |
| Dmitry Sipyagin | 1853 | 1902 | Statesman, Governor of Courland and Governor of Moscow. Deputy of the Minister of State Property, Deputy of the Minister of Interior, Executive Director on the petitions of the Imperial Chancellery, Director of the Ministry of Interior, Minister of Interior. |
| Mikhail Speransky | 1772 | 1839 | Statesman, reformist, Government reform of Alexander I, Governor of Penza, and Governor-General of Siberia, codification of Russian law. |
| Pyotr Valuyev | 1815 | 1890 | Statesman, writer. Minister of State Assets, Chairman of the Council of Ministers. |
| Alexander Yakovlev | 1762 | 1825 | Chamberlain, cavalier, actual state councilor. Chief Procurator of the Most Holy Synod. |

## Architects

| Image | Name | Born | Died | Occupation | Monument | Reference |
| | Vasily Stasov | 1769 | 1848 | Architect, Gruzino estate, Pushkin Lyceum, Chinese Village, Office of the Police Chief. Transfiguration and Trinity cathedrals, Moscow and Narva Gates. | | |

## Composers and musicians

| Name | Born | Died | Occupation |
| Vasily Andreyev | 1861 | 1918 | Composer, musician, balalaika, traditional folk music and instruments. Originally buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Anton Arensky | 1861 | 1906 | Composer, pianist, Romantic classical music, professor of music. |
| Alexander Arkhangelsky | 1846 | 1924 | Composer, conductor, Church music. Originally buried in Prague, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1925. |
| Mily Balakirev | 1837 | 1910 | Composer, pianist, conductor. Musical nationalism, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Mikhail Glinka. |
| Mitrofan Belyayev | 1836 | 1904 | Music publisher, philanthropist. Founder of the Belyayev circle. Originally buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |
| Alexander Borodin | 1833 | 1887 | Romantic composer, "The Mighty Handful", In the Steppes of Central Asia, Prince Igor. Noted chemist, organic synthesis, nucleophilic substitution, co-discoverer of the aldol reaction. |
| Dmitry Bortniansky | 1751 | 1825 | Composer, harpsichordist and conductor. Liturgical works and choral concertos. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1939. Monument is not original. |
| Angiolina Bosio | 1830 | 1859 | Operatic soprano, works of Giuseppe Verdi. Originally buried in the Vyborg Roman Catholic cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1939. |
| Catterino Cavos | 1775 | 1840 | Operatic composer, organist and conductor, father of Alberto Cavos. Opera Ivan Susanin. Originally buried in the Volkovo Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| César Cui | 1835 | 1918 | Composer and music critic, member of the Belyayev circle and The Five. Army officer, Engineer-General, fortifications. Originally buried in the Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Alexander Dargomyzhsky | 1813 | 1869 | Composer, operas Esmeralda, Rusalka, The Stone Guest. Original monument destroyed in a hurricane in 1955. New monument installed in 1961. |
| Alexander Glazunov | 1865 | 1936 | Composer, music teacher, conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. Director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Originally buried in France, monument installed in 1951. Reburied in the Tikhvin in 1972, monument transferred in 1975. |
| Mikhail Glinka | 1804 | 1857 | Composer, Ruslan and Lyudmila. Initially buried in Berlin. |
| Herman Laroche | 1835 | 1904 | Composer, music critic, Saint Petersburg Conservatory, professor of music history and theory at the Moscow Conservatory. Monument is not original. |
| Grigory Lishin | 1854 | 1888 | Composer, poet, theatre critic. Operas Graf Nulin and Tsigane. Monument is not original. |
| Anatoly Lyadov | 1855 | 1914 | Composer, teacher and conductor. Originally buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |
| Ivan Melnikov | 1832 | 1906 | Baritone opera singer. Mariinsky Theatre, operas of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Originally buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Modest Mussorgsky | 1839 | 1881 | Composer, one of "The Five". Opera Boris Godunov, Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition. |
| Osip Petrov | 1806 | 1878 | Operatic bass-baritone, Mariinsky Theatre. Originally buried at the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1844 | 1908 | Composer, member of The Five. Capriccio Espagnol, Russian Easter Festival Overture, Scheherazade. Originally buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova | 1848 | 1919 | Pianist and composer, wife of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. |
| Anton Rubinstein | 1829 | 1894 | Pianist, composer and conductor. Founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Originally buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1939. Monument is not original. |
| Alexander Serov | 1820 | 1871 | Composer and music critic. Operas Judith and Rogneda. |
| Nikolay Sokolov | 1859 | 1922 | Composer, teacher, Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Originally buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky | 1840 | 1893 | Composer. Swan Lake, Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, The Seasons. |
| Aleksandr Verzhbilovich | 1850 | 1911 | Classical cellist. Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Russian Imperial Opera Orchestra, Saint Petersburg String Quartet. Monument is not original. |
| Anna Yesipova | 1851 | 1914 | Pianist. Royal Prussian Court Pianist, Professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Originally buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1948. Monument is not original. |

## Actors, actresses and dancers

| Name | Born | Died | Occupation |
| Varvara Asenkova | 1817 | 1841 | Stage actress, Imperial Theatres. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument bust destroyed by bomb in 1943 during the siege of Leningrad. Replaced with a copy in 1955. |
| Nikolay Cherkasov | 1903 | 1966 | Actor, People's Artist of the USSR. Mariinsky Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre, Young Spectator's Theatre. Films of Sergei Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Stalin Prize. |
| Ivan Dmitrevsky | 1734 | 1821 | Actor, Russian Neoclassicism, tragedian. Plays of Alexander Sumarokov, Russian Academy. Originally buried in the Volkovsky Orthodox cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1939. Monument is not original. |
| Pyotr Karatygin | 1805 | 1879 | Actor, playwright. Woe from Wit, head of Drama department in Theatre College. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Vasily Karatygin | 1802 | 1853 | Actor, Russian Romanticism. Bolshoi Theatre, Alexandrinsky Theatre. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Alexandra Kolosova | 1802 | 1880 | Stage actress, translator and memoirist. |
| Eugenia Kolosova | 1780 | 1869 | Ballerina, Imperial Theatres. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |
| Vera Komissarzhevskaya | 1864 | 1910 | Actress and theatre manager. Alexandrinsky Theatre. Originally buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Vera Michurina-Samoilova | 1866 | 1948 | Actress, People's Artist of the USSR. Alexandrinsky Theatre. Light Without Heat, A Month in the Country, The Cherry Orchard, Intrigue and Love. USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin. |
| Marius Petipa | 1818 | 1910 | Ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Imperial Ballet. The Pharaoh's Daughter, Le Réveil de Flore, Raymonda. Originally buried in the Volkovo Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1948, monument installed in 1988. |
| Modest Pisarev | 1844 | 1905 | Stage actor, reader in drama and theatre critic. Korsh Theatre, Alexandrinsky Theatre. |
| Vasily Samoylov | 1813 | 1887 | Stage actor, opera singer, Alexandrinsky Theatre. Originally buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Nikolai Sazonov | 1843 | 1902 | Stage actor, opera singer, Alexandrinsky Theatre. Originally buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Ekaterina Semenova | 1786 | 1849 | Actress. Originally buried in the Mitrofanyevsky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |
| Nymphodora Semenova | 1787 | 1876 | Opera singer, Imperial Theatres. Originally buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |
| Fyodor Stravinsky | 1843 | 1902 | Bass opera singer and actor, father of Igor Stravinsky. Originally buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Polina Strepetova | 1850 | 1903 | Stage actress, tragic roles. Originally buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |
| Georgy Tovstonogov | 1915 | 1989 | Theatre director, Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, People's Artist of the USSR. Three Stalin Prizes, two Orders of Lenin, The Profession of the Stage-Director. |
| Ivan Yershov | 1867 | 1943 | Opera singer, tenor, Mariinsky Theatre. Originally buried in Tashkent, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1956. |

## Artists and painters

| Name | Born | Died | Occupation |
| Mikhail Avilov | 1882 | 1954 | Painter, member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, Stalin Prize, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Leningrad School of Painting. |
| Alexey Bogolyubov | 1824 | 1896 | Landscape painter, Imperial Academy of Arts. Originally buried in the Malokhtinsky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin prior to 1941. |
| Fyodor Bruni | 1799 | 1875 | Artist and painter, Imperial Academy of Arts, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Accademia di San Luca. Originally buried in the Vyborg Roman Catholic Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Vasily Demut-Malinovsky | 1779 | 1846 | Sculptor, Empire style, Imperial Academy of Arts Kazan Cathedral, Alexander Column, General Staff Building, Bourse, Admiralty, Mining Institute, Narva Gate, Mikhailovsky Palace. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1940. |
| Pavel Fedotov | 1815 | 1852 | Amateur painter, the "Russian Hogarth". Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1939. Monument is not original. |
| Konstantin Flavitsky | 1830 | 1866 | Painter, Imperial Academy of Arts. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |
| Alexander Ivanov | 1806 | 1858 | Painter, neoclassicism, The Appearance of Christ Before the People. Originally buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1940. |
| Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg | 1805 | 1867 | Sculptor, Horse Tamers on the Anichkov Bridge, statuary of the Narva Triumphal Gate, quadriga above the portico of the Bolshoi Theatre, Monument to Nicholas I. Originally buried in the Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original, and dates from the 1840s. |
| Alexei Korzukhin | 1835 | 1894 | Genre painter, Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Realism, Peredvizhniki, Artel of Artists, teacher at the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. Originally buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1940. Monument is not original. |
| Ivan Kramskoi | 1837 | 1887 | Painter and art critic, Peredvizhniki, Artel of Artists, Christ in the Desert. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1939. Monument is not original. |
| Arkhip Kuindzhi | 1842 | 1910 | Landscape painter, realist, Peredvizhniki, Imperial Academy of Arts. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1952. |
| Boris Kustodiev | 1878 | 1927 | Painter and stage designer, Imperial Academy of Arts. The Beauty, Portrait of Chaliapin. |
| Boris Orlovsky | 1796 | 1837 | Neoclassical sculptor. Statues of Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly at the Kazan Cathedral, angel on the Alexander Column. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva | 1871 | 1955 | Artist, watercolor painting. Pioneer of the woodcut technique. Mir iskusstva. |
| Stepan Pimenov | 1784 | 1833 | Sculptor, Imperial Academy of Arts, Kazan Cathedral, Imperial Porcelain Factory, Mining Institute, Admiralty building, General Staff Building. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936, monument erected in 1939. |
| Nikolai Pimenov | 1812 | 1864 | Sculptor, Imperial Academy of Arts, Saint Isaac's Cathedral. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936, monument erected in 1939. |
| Pavel Pleshanov | 1829 | 1882 | Portrait and history painter. Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. |
| Luigi Premazzi | 1814 | 1891 | Painter, mainly of watercolor vedute. Originally buried in the Vyborg Roman Catholic Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1940. |
| Ivan Shishkin | 1832 | 1898 | Landscape painter, Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Imperial Academy of Arts. Peredvizhniki, Morning in a Pine Forest. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1950. |
| Nikolai Utkin | 1780 | 1863 | Graphic artist, engraver and illustrator, curator of prints at the Hermitag, superintendent of the museum at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Alexander Varnek | 1782 | 1843 | Portrait painter, professor and advisor at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Originally buried in the Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |
| Ivan Vitali | 1794 | 1855 | Sculptor, Imperial Academy of Arts. Statues for Triumphal Arch of Moscow, fountain of the Bolshoi Theatre, bas-reliefs above the doors of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, outdoor bronze statue of Emperor Paul in Gatchina. Originally buried in the Volkovo Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Maksim Vorobyov | 1787 | 1855 | Landscape painter. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. |
| Alexei Yegorov | c. 1776 | 1851 | Painter, draftsman and professor of history painting. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |

## Writers and poets

| Name | Born | Died | Occupation |
| Yevgeny Baratynsky | 1800 | 1844 | Elegiac poet. Symbolism. |
| Anton Delvig | 1798 | 1831 | Poet, journalist, friend of Alexander Pushkin. Neoclassicism, Russian folk songs. Editor of Northern Flowers and Literaturnaya Gazeta. Originally buried in the Volkovo Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1934. |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1821 | 1881 | Novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from Underground. |
| Anna Dostoevskaya | 1846 | 1918 | Memoirist, philatelist, stenographer, assistant, and the second wife of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Anna Dostoyevskaya's Diary, Memoirs of Anna Dostoyevskaya. |
| Nikolay Gnedich | 1784 | 1833 | Poet and translator, The Fishers, translation of the Iliad. |
| Ivan Gorbunov | 1831 | 1896 | Writer and stage actor, forefather of Russian "literary theatre", Maly Theatre, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Scenes from the People's Life, theatre historian. Originally buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is from 1951. |
| Alexander Izmaylov | 1779 | 1831 | Fabulist, poet, novelist, publisher, pedagogue, vice-governor of Tver and Arkhangelsk Governorates. Russian Enlightenment. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original, but typical of the 1830s. |
| Nikolay Karamzin | 1766 | 1826 | Writer, poet, historian and critic. History of the Russian State. |
| Evtikhy Karpov | 1857 | 1926 | Playwright and theatre director. Early Autumn, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Griboyedov Prize, Meritorious Theatre Director of the Republic. Originally buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. |
| Ivan Kozlov | 1779 | 1840 | Romantic poet and translator. |
| Ivan Krylov | 1769 | 1844 | Fabulist, dramatist and journalist. |
| Elisabeth Kulmann | 1808 | 1825 | Poet and translator. Originally buried in the Smolensky Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in the 1930s. |
| Pyotr Pletnyov | 1792 | 1866 | Poet and literary critic, dean of Saint Petersburg University, academician of Petersburg Academy of Sciences, friend of Alexander Pushkin, editor of Sovremennik. Monument is not original. |
| Nikolay Shcherbina | 1821 | 1869 | Poet, Grecheskie stikhotvoreniya. |
| Dmitry Stasov | 1828 | 1918 | Lawyer, legal writer, Chief Secretary of the Civil Department of the Senate. |
| Vladimir Stasov | 1824 | 1906 | Critic, Imperial Academy of Arts, honorary fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
| Pyotr Vyazemsky | 1792 | 1878 | Poet, Golden Age of Russian Poetry, Romanticism. Friend of Alexander Pushkin. Monument is not original. |
| Vasily Zhukovsky | 1783 | 1852 | Poet, writer, translator, Arzamas Society, friend of Alexander Pushkin. |

## Educators

| Nadezhda Stasova | 1822 | 1895 | Early feminist, educator, organizer of the Bestuzhev Courses for women |

## Nobility

| Ekaterina Ribeaupierre | 1788 | 1872 | State Lady, Order of Saint Catherine, salons. |

## Formerly buried in the Tikhvin Cememtery

| Aleksandr Gradovsky | 1841 | 1889 | Jurist, professor of law at Saint Petersburg University, leading theorist of Russian administrative and constitutional law, one of the drafters of the Tarnovo Constitution. Originally buried in the Tikhvin Cemetery, transferred to the Literary Walk [ru] of the Volkovo Cemetery in the 1930s. |
| Anatoly Koni | 1844 | 1927 | Jurist, judge, politician and writer. State Council, academic of Petrograd University. Originally buried in the Tikhvin Cemetery, transferred to the Literary Walk [ru] of the Volkovo Cemetery in 1930. |
| Viktor Pashutin | 1845 | 1901 | Pathophysiologist, one of the founders of the pathophysiologic school in Russia and of pathophysiology as an independent scientific discipline. Head of the Imperial Military Medical Academy. Originally buried in the Tikhvin Cemetery, transferred to the Literary Walk [ru] of the Volkovo Cemetery in 1936. |