The north-western part of Moscow once consisted of country estates and landed estates. The large village Novoye Vagankovo was founded and settled in the 15th century between two tracts, trade routes from west to east and from north-east to west. The princess Sophia Vitovna, the wife of Prince Vasily the First, initiated the village settlement. She did not think about Vagankovskoe cemetery. Surrounded her estate with villages, united in one village and named it Novy Vagankovo.
Places were free, picturesque, it became a place of festivities of the sovereigns and guests of Moscow. Fun had a rampant character, from all over the district people flocked to gaze at the fun games of the princes with the boyars. In the end, for reasons of shame, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich forbade the simple people to come and look, and the boyars ordered his games to continue. Almost a hundred years passed, but in 1771 a disaster occurred in Novy Vagankovo - an epidemic of plague began. A terrible illness scared people, not knowing which of them was the prince, and who was a simple farmer. Everyone died. And if earlier, before the plague, the dead were buried in church or monastery land, then on the occasion of the epidemic it was ordered to take all the dead away from the city limits and betray them there. So the Vagankovo Cemetery appeared. Along with Novodevichy and Troyekurovsky, it is also the burial place of famous people.
Vagankovskoe cemetery, graves of celebrities on its avenues remind visitors about past times, when the deceased pleased people with their talent. Here you can see the burial of Sergei Yesenin - the broad soul of a man, a poet of all times and peoples, who lived only 30 years. At the very entrance is the grave of Vladimir Vysotsky, who is not to be represented. The monument to Vladimir Semenovich is addressed to the Temple of the Resurrection of the Speaker, from which the ensemble begins in the style of an architectural empire. This complex of sacral buildings is a masterpiece of church architecture of the 19th century. The temple is four-fold, surrounded by two chapels of St. John the Merciful and Fyodor of Siket, giving an impression of wholeness. Chetverik is crowned by a dome drum on a rotunda. The main temple apse and the apses of the chapels are lined up in one line.
On the other hand, the refectory, the throne of Nicholas the Miracle-Worker, adjoins the temple. There is also a bell tower in three tiers. A little further, at the entrance to the territory of the cemetery, there are two wings of the architect Elkinsky. Both wings have architectural value. In one of them is the church of St. Andrew.
Vagankovskoe cemetery is planned according to the scheme of quarter sections, it is impossible to get lost in it, any avenue will lead to the central entrance. Walking through the blocks, you will meet with friends and beloved artists who have gone to a different world, famous athletes and coaches, singers and composers. Each grave is necessarily someone's fate, a long creative life of a man who left a trace in history. Vagankovskoe cemetery keeps a memory of all people who have found peace in its shady avenues. And not only about famous and famous.
Vagankovskoe cemetery ... How to get there? The main entrance is in the street of Sergey Makeev, 15. By car it will not be difficult to drive. Also to the cemetery you can get on the metro station "Ulitsa 1905 goda".