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.

FILE - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev bids a final farewell to his wife Raisa just minutes before she was buried at Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 23, 1999.

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 ...

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, ...

MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of Russia’s LDPR party and member of all convocations of the State Duma (lower parliament house), was buried in Moscow’s Novodevichy ...

Source: RIA Novosti. Russian actor and director Konstantin Stanislavsky, who was born 150 years ago today, toured the United States with his actors in 1923 to great acclaim.

Ambassadors from the U.S. and the UK laid flowers at Navalny's grave in Moscow cemetery early Sunday together with Russians who came to mourn the late opposition leader. Memorial services and ...

Yeltsin's anointed successor, Vladimir Putin, attended the church service and marched with his wife, Lyudmila, in the procession. At a Kremlin reception hours after the burial, he promised to ...

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.

MOSCOW, November 28. /TASS/. A ceremony to bury the urn with part of the ashes of legendary Russian opera singer Dmitry Hvorostovsky took place at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery on Tuesday.