5 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.

Moscow begins celebrations to mark 150 years since the birth of Konstantin Stanislavky, outstanding theater director, ... and his autobiography, My Life in Art. He died of a heart failure on August 7, ...

Who was Konstantin Stanislavski? Konstantin Sergeievich Alexeiev was born on 17 January 1863 to a wealthy Russian family living in Moscow. He was brought up immersed in drama and the arts, as his ...

Visit the graves of Solzhenitsyn, Gogol, Chekhov, Stanislavsky, and Yeltsin; as well as catch a glimpse of the ghost of Yesenin’s secretary, and visit Moscow’s only cemetery for ‘infidels.’ 1.