Gravestone Depicting a Woman Holding a Cross

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This gravestone portrays a woman grasping a large cross and a cup that typically symbolizes faith. The State Museum of City Sculptures was established in 1932 with the goal of studying, restoring, and safeguarding city sculptures and gravestones. The museum is accountable for maintaining numerous of St Petersburg's most renowned sculptures. Several branches of the museum are situated around St Petersburg, but the main ones are concentrated within the former territory of the Aleksandro-Nevsky Lavra which was granted to the museum at its inception. The Aleksandro-Nevsky Lavra's Tikhvinskoe Cemetery was founded in 1823 and named after the Our Lady of Tikhvin Church that was constructed here between 1869 and 1873. In 1931, the church was closed down and in 1932, the cemetery became a branch of the State Museum of City Sculptures, known as the Necropolis of Masters of Culture. The branch is so named because many influential figures from Russian culture have been laid to rest here including writers Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Karamzin, and Ivan Krylov; composers Aleksandr Borodin, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Musorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky; and artists Boris Kustodiev, Ivan Kramskoy, and Ivan Shishkin, among many other prominent names.