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Piskarevskoe cemetery in Saint Petersburg
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| Title | Piskarevskoe cemetery in Saint Petersburg |
| Notes | During World War II the Nazis kept Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) under siege for over two and a half years. Hundreds of thousands of people died in the city during the siege, mostly of cold and starvation. About half a million of them, including 420, 000 civilians, are buried in the 186 mass graves of Piskarevskoe Cemetery. A long alley leads the visitor to a monument with a statue of the Motherland, portrayed as a grieving woman. Many Saint Petersburg families come to the cemetery once or twice a year to bring flowers and pay tribute to the city's defenders or to members of their own families who died during the siege. |
| Subjects | Cemeteries
Monuments and memorials
Flowers
Walls
World War, 1939-1945
Piskarevskoe memorialnoe kladbishche (Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R.)
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| Photographer | Augerot, James |
| Country | Russia |
| Region | Severo-Zapadnyy Ekonomicheskiy Rayon |
| Oblast/Province | Leningradskaya Oblast |
| City/Town | Sankt-Peterburg |
| Contributors | Augerot, James |
| ImageType | photograph |
| Image Date | 1972 |
| Digital Collection | Central Eurasian Information Resource |
| Image No. | 5328 |
| Contact information | The University of Washington Libraries does not provide reproductions of this image. The original negative, print, or slide reproduced here remains in the possession of the copyright holder. For further information contact the UW Libraries' Slavic and East European Section, slavinfo@u.washington.edu. |
| Rights | Augerot, James |
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