Lychakiv Cemetery

in #photography7 years ago

Лычаковское_кладбище.JPG

This place is difficult to call a classic museum. However, for the history and culture of the cemetery is of great value. Founded at the end of the 18th century, Lychakivsky is one of the most majestic necropolises of Europe.

Надгробие_Регины_Марковской.jpg

Here buried rich, well-known, notable persons who made a significant contribution to the development of art and science. On the territory of 40 hectares are more than 3,5 thousand monuments, made by famous architects and sculptors - Abel Perier, Leonardo Marconi, Grigory Kuznevich and others.

Аллея_Лычаковского_кладбища.jpg

Such famous writers and composers as Ivan Franko, Irina Vilde, Stepan Tudor, Stanislav Lyudkevich, Igor Bilozir and others are buried at Lychakiv Cemetery. For more than 20 years the cemetery has been working as a museum-preserve.

86537494.jpg

86537496.jpg

Братская_могила_русских_журналистов_на_Лычаковском_кладбище.jpg

Надгробие_Станислава_Щепановского.jpg

Sort:  

Nice post. Some of those tombs are kind of creepy!

I want to be encased in carbonite and hung on a wall, myself...

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.22
TRX 0.27
JST 0.041
BTC 104601.56
ETH 3878.85
SBD 3.32