Artists from the New Saints Cemetery

The New Saints Cemetery is one of the three largest cemeteries in Europe. It covers a total area of 7.5 hectares and houses the remains of more than 26,000 Russian celebrities in various historical periods. There are famous writers Pushkin, writers Nikolai Nikolai Gogol, Chekhov, Mayakovski and Fadev, composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, drama theorist stanislavski, dancer ulanova, announcer Yuli Borisovich Levitan, aircraft designers Andrei tupolev and Vavilov, politicians Mikhail, Podgorny, Yeerqin and so on. These great men of the century who once played a great role in promoting the development of Russian history are buried here, and everyone tells their different life stories to the world through their own unique tombstones. In the hearts of Russians, the new saints cemetery is not a place to bid farewell to life, but a church to reinterpret life and purify the soul. The cemetery of new saints was originally just an ordinary cemetery for burying monks, and its history can be traced back to16th century. Become the ultimate destination of famous Russian intellectuals and celebrities from all walks of life in the19th century. In 1930s, some cultural celebrities buried in churches were also moved here. At this time, the graves of the famous Russian writer Nikolai Nikolai Gogol and others moved into the New Saints Cemetery. In this migration, an amazing secret hidden for many years was discovered. When people opened Nicholas Nikolai Gogol's coffin, they were surprised to find that his skull was gone.

Although Nikolai Nikolai Gogol died at the age of 43, he wrote such literary works as Dead Soul and Imperial Envoy, which made him a great Russian language artist at that time. When Nicholas Nikolai Gogol was alive, he repeatedly begged his descendants not to erect any tombstones for him, so that he could be integrated with the earth. However, his demands were not met because he was too valuable to Russia. Therefore, people gave him a grand funeral and built him a tombstone. Bakrushin, a famous dramatist who worships him very much, persuaded the monks guarding the cemetery to dig out Nikolai Nikolai Gogol's skull and keep it as a treasure at home. When people knew the truth, Bakrushin had to hand over Nikolai Nikolai Gogol's skull, but when Nikolai Nikolai Gogol's family entrusted the skull to Nikolai Nikolai Gogol's favorite Italy, the party mysteriously disappeared on the way. To this day, the language master buried in the new saint cemetery still has no head of his own. To Nikolai Nikolai Gogol's slight comfort, his neighbor in the graveyard is Chekhov, a great Russian critical realist writer 19. Chekhov only outlived Nikolai Nikolai Gogol 1 year. His two works, The Chameleon and The Man in the Trap, are exquisite and perfect artistic treasures in the history of Russian literature. The humorous Chekhov once advised people to cherish life and be content. He once said: If you have a thorn on your finger, you should be happy to say that it is fine, and thank the thorn for not sticking into your eye ... If the person you love betrays you, you should be glad that she betrayed you, not your motherland.

It is Tolstoy, Pushkin, Nikolai Nikolai Gogol, Chekhov and other literary masters who, like candlelight, lit up the night sky under the rule of feudal Russia and ignited the flame of Russian people's yearning for freedom and pursuit of ideals. People now come to the New Saints Cemetery, and every time they see their tombstones, they are purifying their souls. In fact, few politicians are buried in the cemetery of New Saints, which makes the cemetery less politically complicated and more artistically detached and elegant.

An immortal soul is buried under this ordinary tombstone. He melts his life into his music and gets eternal life. 1941July 10 to 1943, the Soviet red army broke through the encirclement, and the Germans besieged Leningrad for three years and one month. In these 900 days, the heroic soldiers and civilians in Leningrad sacrificed 900,000 people, including more than 460,000 people who starved to death. 1On August 9th, 942, the Germans thought Leningrad was within reach, and even castle wolfenstein had issued invitations for its officers to attend the celebration banquet of astoria Hotel in Leningrad.

But on that day, the hotel didn't hold a German celebration dinner, instead, it was the premiere of Leningrad Symphony by Soviet composer Shostakovich. In the flames of war, although the Leningrad Radio Orchestra at that time, only the conductor and 15 members were left. The rest either starved to death or froze to death, or were injured in the hospital, and then went to the front to fight, but people still took various measures to overcome difficulties. The orchestra recruited temporary musicians all over the city, and the air force brought music scores to the orchestra.

In order to make the performance go on normally, the Soviet Red Army first silenced the enemy's gunfire with powerful and intensive firepower, and then played this symphony masterpiece expressing anger and resistance in the sound of war. Music flooded the whole city like a flash flood, and people gathered in front of loudspeakers from streets, bunkers and houses to listen to the heroic movements. Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony echoed over the cloudy city, supporting people to fight to the last moment.

In order to inspire the world's confidence in the anti-Fass war, the score of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was filmed as a microfilm, flew over Iran, North Africa and South America by military plane, and finally arrived in the United States. The live performance of the concert was broadcast by hundreds of radio stations in the United States and South America at the same time, affecting the whole western hemisphere. From 1942 to 1943 alone, Shostakovich's symphonies have been performed in the United States for as many as 62 times. Now Shostakovich is lying quietly in an inconspicuous corner of the New Saints Cemetery. The tombstone is just a few simple notes. But the music of this genius has cast the soul and backbone of several generations of Russians. A full-length statue stands in front of the grave of singer Fiod Shalyapin. The posture of the statue is a portrait painted by the famous painter Lie Bin. Cha Yabin sat on the sofa, one hand on the armrest, the other hand in the vest, and his head slightly raised. Look focused, as if listening to music attentively. This lifelike statue not only evokes people's memories of Cha Ryabin's singing, but also evokes many Russian old people's love and nostalgia for him.

Cha Yabin, who has no formal music education, has a natural good voice. He is called the world bass king. His singing once moved Tolstoy, the master of world literature, to tears. His deep voice shocked the whole world. However, it is such a great singer, the pride of the Russian nation, who was persecuted by domestic radicals for life, had to go into exile, and even was deprived of the honorary title of people's actor.

It is said that Chayabin said angrily before his death that I can't even bury my bones in this country. But 46 years after his death, the immortal artist's body was finally moved from Paris to the New Saints Cemetery in Moscow. Chayabin returned to his mother's arms.

In the cemetery of Notre Dame, like Cha Ryabin and Shostakovich, there are many artists' cemeteries. Every tombstone is always covered with flowers, but this is not a gift from the family of the deceased. Russians who love art always come here during their breaks to clean up tombstones and send flowers to their idols. Russians express their respect for great men and their obsession with art in this quiet way.

The New Saints Cemetery has become a tourist attraction in Russia, attracting millions of tourists every year. People here look for the footprints of great men who have influenced Russia and the world, and listen to their legendary life stories. But there are also some ordinary people buried here, and their lives are more thrilling than those of great men.