Gannibal-Pushkin Necropolis at the Holy Assumption Svyatogorsk Monastery

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The Holy Assumption Svyatogorsk Monastery became the final earthly resting place of A. S. Pushkin. On 18 February 1837, after a requiem panikhida in the southern chapel of the Assumption Cathedral, served by Archimandrite Gennady, the poet's body was laid to rest by the altar wall. Four years later a marble monument was erected on the grave; it was commissioned by Pushkin's widow and the guardianship of the poet's family and executed by the St. Petersburg master of monumental works A. M. Permogorov. It bears the inscription: "Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow on 26 May 1799, died in St. Petersburg on 29 January 1837." Buried in the monastery's Gannibal-Pushkin family cemetery are: the poet's grandfather Osip Abramovich Gannibal (1806), grandmother Maria Alekseyevna (1818), the poet's parents — Nadezhda Osipovna (1836) and Sergey Lvovich (1848), as well as his younger brother Platon (1819). The Holy Assumption Svyatogorsk Monastery became A. S. Pushkin's final place of refuge. For more than 180 years the monastery has been a place of remembrance and honor for the poet.