All Saints Cemetery
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All Saints Cemetery - is the oldest memorial cemetery in Tula. After the plague Catherine II was issued a decree banning burials at churches in the city. In connection with these events, the authorities of Tula has been allocated a place in the new cemetery - on the southern outskirts of the city. Who died of the plague in Tula was a little: 12 males, women have not been considered. The cemetery was dug in a ditch and it originally were buried died of a plague. Later it was given a wooden church. To save space in the cemetery of people buried in tiers. Burial because of this were not deep, and the cemetery was an unpleasant smell.

In 1839 the governor of AE Averkiev engaged in landscaping the cemetery. Turning to the Bishop of Damascus, he asked him to persuade parishioners to donate money to fence the cemetery. On the merchant donated funds was made high rampart and a deep ditch.

Over time, the area which is adjacent to the cemetery, was the densely built-up housing, and the cemetery continued to grow, filling up with new and new graves. As a result, his health condition worsened again, and residents living near appealed to the authorities to equip the cemetery.

In 1847, Governor NN Muravyov was ordered to correct the entrance gate and the shaft, to build a guard house and hire a watchman, whose duties had included control in order not to snatch at the grave site of the old graves, and the density of the graves in the cemetery would not be large. All expenses governor to be done at the expense of the city budget, but the thought did not support the decision of the governor. As a result, it was necessary again to collect donations for the arrangement of cemeteries.

In 1864 the Orthodox Diocese addressed parishioners Tula Catholic community to allocate them to the cemetery for the burial place of their parishioners. So at All Saints Lutheran Cemetery originated Catholic site that was separated by a moat from the rest of the cemetery. Later he was made a separate entrance gate with turrets, made in the Gothic style (they survived and now).

In 1889, in the southern part of the All Saints Cemetery was set aside land for the graves of soldiers who, according to authorities, should be buried in a certain place, and not in different parts of the cemetery. In 1914, this section has been increased due to the war graves who died during the First World War.

In 1910, on the eastern side of the cemetery it began construction of a stone wall, with the time it was completely fenced all around.

Up until the 1970s. on All Saints Cemetery continued dumping. Then it became known as Memorial. Who is All Saints Cemetery permitted only dispose urn. As allowed by local authorities as an exception in the cemetery produce single burial of prominent people: in 2000, near the altar of the Cathedral of All Saints buried him rector, Archpriest Anatoly Rodionov; on All Saints Cemetery he was also buried schema-nun Nile altarnitsa Cathedral.

All Saints Cemetery in Tula has considerable cultural and artistic value, which is confirmed by the presence of tombs and sarcophagi of various forms of granite, white stone, metal, marble in different artistic styles - from baroque to art nouveau; the existence of the forged railings and crosses.

The most famous graves on All Saints Cemetery Tula are the crypt chapel of family-NI Zhdanov (manager Tula breech Chamber), necropolis Dobrynin (18-19 cc.), The necropolis Liventseva (19 in.), Family Vanykina DY (organizer Vanykinskoy hospital in Tula), VP Grushetsky (the first chief physician of the hospital Vanykinskoy), gravestones Luginin, PP Belousov (sanitary doctor of Tula, the founder of the city park), NI Beloborodov (inventor of the chromatic accordion), AV Batasheva (the founder of the hospital in Inshinskom) Stechkina JS (Tula famous doctor) and many others.

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