Gravestone Depicting Relief of a Man

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This sculpture showcases a relief of a man about whom we know very little information.\r\nThe State Museum of City Sculptures was established in 1932 with the goal of studying, restoring and protecting city sculptures and gravestones, and it is responsible for maintaining many of St Petersburg's most famous sculptures. The museum has several branches around St Petersburg, but its main locations are concentrated within the former territory of the Aleksandro-Nevsky Lavra which was given to the museum upon its founding.\r\nThe Aleksandro-Nevsky Lavra's Tikhvinskoe Cemetery was created in 1823 and named after the Our Lady of Tikhvin Church which was built 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. This branch is named as such because many leading figures of 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 more notable names.