Olshansky cemetery complex, which is located in Prague's Vinohrady called, consists of three parts. In one there are graves of Orthodox Citizens of Prague, on the other - the Jews, the third - the Czechs. On the Jewish side of the cemetery you can see the grave of Franz Kafka. To do this, find the section 21 and pass along the wall.
Orthodox sector of the cemetery served as the last refuge for many exiles from the post-revolutionary Russia. Here you can find the burial writers Averchenko and Nemirovich-Danchenko, the singer Vladimir Levitsky, Vladimir Nabokov and his mother to see a plaque mentioning the Whites. On the Orthodox side of the cemetery and placed three of the memorial dedicated to the Czech soldiers who fell during the battles of World War II, Soviet soldiers who liberated Prague from the fascist German invaders, and the British victims of the Second World.
If you go across the street Jana Želivského, you can be on the Czech side of the cemetery. Previously, the churchyard was used for the burial of those who died during the plague. Then, the cemetery has grown and has become quite popular not only among the common people, but also among the noble families of the Czech Republic. Here you can see many rich tombs and crypts, burial place aristocrats, politicians, actors and so on. On this part of the cemetery was reburied the remains leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia Gottwald. Until the early 70-ies he was in a mausoleum on Mount Vitkovskaya.
Cemetery great - its territory covers 50 hectares, but it is interesting to walk on. It is somewhat reminiscent of the most famous necropolis of the world such as the Novodevichy and Pere Lachaise.
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