The Forgotten Fate of the Russian Cemetery
Description:
Walk through the old Orthodox (Ilyinsky) Helsinki cemetery, where under each gravestone lies history.
This tour is a book about amazing people who left a mark in the history of not only Helsinki or Finland, but also Russia.
During the tour we will meet:
The history of the cemetery
Jeweller A. Faberge, son of Karl Faberge
- artist Y. Repin
- the last empress of honor Anna Vyrubova-Taneeva
- "Beer Emperor" Sinebrychov
Russian merchants who built Helsinki
The fate of Russian generals and officers who died during the “Red Terror”
- with beautiful and sad love stories: a young beauty and an old general, an Indian Orthodox "prince and princess"
- with the Greek who gave Finland aviation
And many more stories about those who left their indelible traces on this Earth!!!