Cemetery and Famous Graves
Tarusa has two cemeteries: the Old Cemetery and the New Cemetery. The Old Cemetery has the graves of writer Konstantin Paustovsky, sculptor Vasili Vatagin, Marina Tsvetaeva’s daughter Ariadna Efron, builder Sergey Krutilin, writer Nadezhda Krandievskaya, local entrepreneur and founder of the Yakor Hotel (Russian: Якорь) Alexander Shuklin.
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Famous quotes containing the words cemetery, famous and/or graves:
“The cemetery isn’t really a place to make a statement.”
—Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)
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—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“War was return of earth to ugly earth,
War was foundering of sublimities,
Extinction of each happy art and faith
By which the world had still kept head in air.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)