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The cemetery is not the most pleasant place that most of us have ever visited in our lives. Literally, the deathly silence that envelops this place is terrifying, and the crows sitting on rickety crosses, whose cawing breaks the silence with a piercing sound, are truly terrifying. Although the tombstones that can be seen in a cemetery can be much creepier than the cemetery itself. Here are 25 of the strangest, most heartbreaking and sometimes funny gravestones from around the world.

Woman at the piano. I wonder if she played during her lifetime?

This Woman Really Loved Mickey Mouse

We hope that this man's death and smoking are not related.

Tomb of the creator of the labyrinth

Now they will sleep forever

The tree mercilessly swallowed up the old grave

This tomb is located in Paris, France and contains the inventor of the gas lamp, Charles Pigeon.

In this grave lies a 10-year-old girl who died in 1871, who during her lifetime was very afraid of thunderstorms. After the death of her daughter, her grief-stricken mother ordered the construction of a basement next to the girl’s grave, where she could go down during a thunderstorm and calm her daughter.

This life-size monument in a glass box was commissioned by the mother of the deceased

This is the grave of a 16-year-old girl whose sister commissioned this life-size headstone.

Lovers from Thailand

One of the most heartbreaking monuments we have ever seen, and one that reminds us that we are all in God's hands.

A tombstone in the shape of a mobile phone in one of the Israeli cemeteries

Happy forever

A terrifying tomb located in Genoa, Italy

In this grave with an eerie tombstone lies the writer Georges Rodenbach, who emerged from it.

Mortsafe: This appearance of the grave was common in 18th century Scotland and was done to protect graves from looting, which was a common occurrence among medical students who were so lacking in practical material

Nature is unforgiving

The frightening tombstone of Fernand Arbelot, who was a musician and actor

Tomb of an 18th century French journalist

Whoever's lying here really enjoyed playing Scrabble.

These are the interconnected graves of a husband and wife. The wife was a Protestant and the husband was a Catholic. They died at a time when Catholics and Protestants were buried in different cemeteries

This is the last remaining grave in an old cemetery in rural Indiana. Much of the cemetery was moved to make way for the state highway. The grandson of the woman buried there refused to allow his grandmother to move. The county eventually gave in and built a road around the grave

I suggest taking a walk through the Novodevichy cemetery, which is located on the territory of the currently operating Resurrection Novodevichy Convent. Many people do not even suspect the existence of the Novodevichy Cemetery in St. Petersburg, believing that a cemetery and monastery under that name exist only in Moscow. However, today the St. Petersburg Novodevichy Cemetery is beginning to be revived, tombstones are being restored, interesting excursions are held (both regular tourist and special pilgrimage), and more and more people are learning about this place.

Before the revolution, the Novodevichy cemetery was one of the most expensive and prestigious in St. Petersburg and, although it was badly damaged during the Soviet period, to this day it remains a valuable historical necropolis. A walk through the Novodevichy Cemetery will be interesting both for those who like to study the biographies of outstanding people and for connoisseurs of artistic tombstones. There are also shrines here, where people come to pray or simply make a wish. You can read about famous people buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in a separate article. In the meantime, we will tell you about the most beautiful and unusual tombstones of the Novodevichy cemetery, and also get acquainted with its history (and the history of the monastery itself).

The most beautiful and unusual tombstones of the Novodevichy cemetery in St. Petersburg

Among the tombstones at the Novodevichy Cemetery there are sarcophagi, obelisks, slabs, steles with crosses, pedestals, slides with large chips, monuments in the form of an oncoming wave, chapels, miniature temples... There are also monuments with portraits of the deceased, but quite a few of them have survived because Busts, bas-reliefs and other similar details were the first to suffer when the cemetery was destroyed.

Although a significant part of the pre-revolutionary burials have not survived to this day, we can still admire the surviving monuments of the 19th - early 20th centuries, which are of undoubted historical and artistic value.

Many headstones are created from valuable materials, including rare types of marble and granite. On some you can still read the names of the owners of the workshops where they were made.

From the point of view of artistic merit, family chapels and tombs stand out especially.

Unfortunately, they are all ruined and are unlikely to be restored to their former splendor, but even today they amaze with the quality and variety of design.

Perhaps the most beautiful is the Art Nouveau tomb of Lucia Gilse Van der Pals, née Johansen.

The massive chapel with a decorative frieze is a stylization of an ancient Egyptian tomb.

The tomb was built in 1904 according to the design of the architect V. Yu. Johansen in the workshop of Yu. P. Korsak. Its walls are made of Radom sandstone, the base is made of granite, and the floor is marble.

Inside the tomb, a marble bas-relief by the Piedmontese sculptor Pietro Canonica (1869-1959) (sometimes his last name is written “Canon” or “Canonico”) has survived. During his long life, the master managed to work fruitfully in Russia, Italy, England, Turkey... Not everyone knows that once on Manezhnaya Square in St. Petersburg there was an equestrian monument to Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich by Pietro Canonica (1914). In 1918, the “ugly statue” was demolished, but in the Canonica House Museum in the Villa Borghese park in Rome, you can still see the models created for the monument to this day. Among other works of the Canon, we know the sculpture of the nun “After Taking a Vow” (one of the versions is currently exhibited in the St. Petersburg Museum of the History of Religion).

Buried in such an elegant chapel, Lucia (Lucy) was the daughter of the Danish professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Julius Johansen, and the wife of the Dutch consul, co-director of the Russian-American Manufactory of Rubber Products (the future “Red Triangle”), philanthropist and philanthropist Heinrich van Gilze van der Pals. Many people are familiar with the luxurious mansion of G. G. Gilze van der Pals on English Avenue (the current military registration and enlistment office). The mansion was built by Lucia's brother, the architect William Yulievich Johansen (he, as was said, designed this magnificent tombstone). Old photographs show that the rooms of the mansion were decorated with marble statues by Pietro Canonica, including the aforementioned figure of a nun. Apparently, Gilse van der Pals was a connoisseur of Canonica’s work, so it is not surprising that he entrusted him with the sculptural design of the grave of his beloved wife.

Another interesting burial from the point of view of artistic merit is the grave of artillery general Dmitry Sergeevich Mordvinov (1820-1894). This is undoubtedly one of the most famous and beautiful tombstones of the St. Petersburg Novodevichy cemetery. Unfortunately, the side plates with the name of the buried person have been lost, but the artistic metal fence has survived.

The most notable feature of the tombstone is the bronze figure of a seated angel above a marble sarcophagus. A living flower is often placed in the hand of an angel.

The sculpture of the angel was created in the workshop of the French sculptor and artist Charles Bertault. The St. Petersburg bronze foundry Berto (formerly F. Chopin) specialized in the production of small bronze plastics. For participation in the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, where the factory’s products were awarded a gold medal, Berto received the title “Supplier to the Court of His Imperial Majesty.” Despite this, due to financial difficulties, after two years he had to close the business and return to France.

Sculptural monuments with marble or bronze figures of angels standing or sitting at a tombstone were very common at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, but few such examples have survived to this day. Therefore, despite the fact that this is just a “standard” sample that is not related to the individuality of the customer, the tombstone is perceived as of great value.

As for the personality of D.S. Mordvinov, who is buried here, it is known that he served in the artillery from a young age. In 1856, he was appointed head of a separate office of the War Ministry, and ten years later he became director of the office of the War Ministry, to which he devoted almost half of his many years of service. In 1872, Mordvinov was granted adjutant general to His Imperial Majesty; in 1881 he was appointed a member of the Military Council and awarded the diamond insignia of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky. In 1883, Mordvinov was promoted to artillery general, and in 1889 he celebrated his 50th anniversary of service in the officer ranks and received the Order of St. Vladimir, 1st degree.

It is also worth paying attention to the tombstone of the St. Petersburg architect, who, however, is not very well known to the public. This is Ivan Denisovich Chernik (1811-1874), who worked in the military department and built, in particular, the new building of the General Staff and the Kryukov (Naval) barracks.

The burial of I. D. Chernik is one of the most beautiful surviving monuments at the Novodevichy cemetery. It is a magnificent white marble sarcophagus on a high pedestal. The plaque with the epitaph and surname of the deceased has not survived, but the bas-relief portraits of I. D. Chernik himself and his wife have survived (the latter, unfortunately, was damaged by vandals and cannot be restored due to the specifics of Carrara marble.

The monument was made in the workshop of the Italian sculptor Domenico Carli in Genoa (1878).

One of the most unusual burials in Novodevichy cemetery is the grave of mathematician, professor Vladimir Pavlovich Maksimovich (1850-1889).

Maksimovich was born in St. Petersburg into a noble family and from an early age had outstanding mathematical abilities. He studied in St. Petersburg and Paris, worked at Kazan and Kiev universities. At the beginning of 1889, the mathematician was diagnosed with severe mental illness, and in the same year he died at the age of 39.

The tombstone of Vladimir Maksimovich is a stone sphere in an artistic metal fence. On the sphere are images of the zodiac signs and a quote from Byron’s poem “Euthanasia” in English (“ Count o"er the joys thine hours have seen...»).

This poem is known in translations by I. Golts-Miller and V. Levik (in the latter’s arrangement this quatrain sounds like this: “It is close, the day calling for a funeral feast, ||Count the blessings of past days, ||And you will understand: whoever you were in life, ||Not to be, not to live - it’s much more accurate”).

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Grieving relatives do everything to perpetuate the memory of their deceased loved ones, turning ordinary gravestones either into something very allegorical or into sculptures that are real works of art

Grieving relatives do everything to perpetuate the memory of their deceased loved ones, turning ordinary gravestones into either something very allegorical or into sculptures that are real works of art:

1. Woman at the piano. She may have been a musician during her lifetime.

2. This woman really loved Mickey Mouse

3. Maybe this guy died because he smoked too much?

4. The tomb of the creator of the labyrinth

5. "Eternal Dream"

6. The tree swallowed the old grave

7. Tombstone over the grave of the inventor of the gas lamp, Charles Pigeon, Montparnasse cemetery, Paris, France

8. This grave was made at the behest of a grief-stricken mother for her late 10-year-old daughter in 1871.

When the girl was alive, she was terrified of thunderstorms. Next to her grave there is a special basement that was dug to the level of the coffin. During a thunderstorm, the girl’s mother went down to the basement to “calm down” her child.

9. A life-size monument to a girl under a glass cover was custom-made at the request of her mother.

10. This is the grave of a 16-year-old girl. The tombstone was made by order of her sister

11. “Love to the grave”, Thailand

12. This monument depicts the Savior holding in his hands two ropes from a simple children’s swing with a crossbar

A little girl is sitting on a swing below. The sculptural composition reminds that the life of everyone on earth is in the hands of God.

13. A tombstone in the shape of a mobile phone was discovered in one of the Israeli cemeteries

The tombstone is engraved with various inscriptions, for example: “Please leave a message - I will reply as soon as I can.”

14. "Together Forever"

15. This terrifying grave is located in a cemetery in Genoa, Italy.

16. The grave of the Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach.The tombstone represents the writer himself, rising from the grave with a rose in his hand

17. The design of this Victorian grave is to ensure that the dead do not leave their final resting place.

Many in those days firmly believed in the existence of vampires and thus prevented the release of the reincarnated deceased. In fact, medical students needed corpses to study anatomy, and in order to gain knowledge, they did not disdain excavating fresh graves. To protect the assassination attempt, relatives ordered forged gratings for the graves of their loved ones.

18. Nature is inexorable...

19. Fernand Arbelot was a musician and actor who died in 1990

He was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. During his lifetime, Fernand wished to look at his wife's face forever.

20. 18th century gravestone under which a French journalist rests

21. Gravestone in the form of a scrabble board

22. The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together

In the 1800s, it was illegal for Catholics and Protestants to be buried in the same cemetery.

23. This grave is all that remains of an old rural cemetery in India

An interstate highway was built on the site of the cemetery. The grandson, whose grandmother was buried there, refused to move the grave. In the end, the authorities met him halfway and built a road around the grave.

In fact, people are scared in most cemeteries because this is the place where they remember death, including their own death. But these cemeteries are absolutely teeming with ghost stories and unusual facts! Do you want to tickle your nerves? That way.

You might be surprised that the first cemetery photo on this list is of an airport. However, it really is a cemetery! Under Runway 10 are the graves of the Dotsons, a married couple who used to live in a house on the site of the airport and were buried in a plot next to it. The airport repeatedly negotiated with the Dotsons' relatives about transferring the remains, but they did not agree, and this is not allowed in the United States without the consent of the relatives.

The architectural splendor of the Recoleta cemetery is amazing, but it is not included in this list because of it, but because of a number of terrible and unusual stories about those who are buried there: next to the grave of Evita Peron, on which there are always fresh flowers, Rufina Cambaceres is buried , a girl who was buried alive and woke up from a coma right in the coffin, and David Alleno, a poor gravedigger who saved money for thirty years for a burial plot, and when he saved it, he committed suicide.

We are used to cemeteries being underground, but the Philippine Igorot tribe bury their dead... in the air. Cemeteries always hang over the heads of people from this tribe. For example, this rock covered in coffins looks creepy!

This cemetery is a popular tourist attraction in the Romanian village of Sapinta. Cemetery monuments, painted in bright colors, take us away from the mournful atmosphere of the place, and the epitaphs on them are funny and even satirical.

This is perhaps one of the most famous cemeteries in England. Every crypt and every statue here is an architectural masterpiece. But besides this, the cemetery is famous for its abundance of ghosts - for example, the tall Highgate vampire with a hypnotic gaze. Another famous ghost is a mad woman running around a cemetery looking for the children she killed.

Greyfriars Cemetery is an old cemetery with a rich history. It was founded in the 1560s. at the local prison. Of the 1,200 prisoners, only 257 came out of it alive - the rest remained here forever. Now a rare brave man will dare to enter the gates of Greyfriars at night - the souls of the innocent killed will not give him peace.

People are afraid to visit even ordinary cemeteries. What would you say about the whole island of the dead? It's in Venice! When it was established that burials on the main territory of Venice led to unsanitary conditions, the dead began to be taken to San Michele. This is still done in a specially designated gondola.

The mining towns of La Noria and Humberstone are located in the middle of the desert in Chile. The history of these towns is a terrible story of violence by masters against their slave miners. Sometimes they were simply brutally killed, not sparing the children. They were buried in the La Noria cemetery; Now, when you are in this cemetery, you cannot leave the feeling of an otherworldly environment around. There are many open and dug graves in the cemetery, from which even skeletons are showing!

4. Chiesa dei Morti (Church of the Dead), Urbino, Italy

The Church of the Dead is famous not only for its big name, but also for its exhibition of mummies. Behind the classic baroque arch there is a wonderful view of most of them. Each of the 18 surviving mummies is in its own alcove. The church was built, characteristically, by the Brotherhood of the Good Death.

3. Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

This place is legendary as one of the most haunted cemeteries in America. Eyewitnesses confirm the appearance of strange figures in the cemetery. One of the famous ghosts is a white lady with a child in her arms. Also in the 1950s. many visitors to the cemetery reported a ghostly house. In addition, a farmer with a horse, killed nearby, and a black dog appeared in the cemetery.

The number of “inhabitants” of the Paris catacombs is almost three times higher than the number of Parisians living above - almost 6 million corpses are buried here. The vibrant life of the chic “upper Paris” is terribly different from the gloomy city of the dead underground. Here you can find entire corridors of skulls and bones. The Parisian catacombs are huge, and no one knows how intricate their labyrinth is: it is quite possible to get lost here forever.

The Capuchin Crypt is 6 rooms located under the Church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Italy. It contains 3,700 skeletons of Capuchin monks. When their remains were brought here in 1631, they filled 300 carts and were buried in soil specially brought from Jerusalem. After 30 years, the remains were exhumed and displayed in the hall. But the worst thing is not the mummies themselves, but the “message of brotherhood” translated into 5 languages: “We were what you are. You will be what we are."

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