Relief on Gravestone

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This relief on a gravestone shows a woman holding an effigy of a man, likely the deceased owner of the tomb. The gravestone comes with an inscription honoring the deceased. The cemetery in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery is the most famous and the most visited cemetery in St. Petersburg. In a relatively small area surrounding the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, there are four historic cemeteries - Lazarevskoe, Tikhvinskoe, Nikolskoe, and Kazache (Cossack), as well as the Church of the Annunciation - the first stone temple and mausoleum in St. Petersburg and the first resting place for the tsarist family. Today, all cemeteries at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery are part of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture. In the 20th century, graves of many prominent residents of St. Petersburg that were deteriorating in dilapidated cemeteries were moved here. The monastery contains the graves of writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, famous composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and numerous other notable figures.