Brotherhood Cemetery
Russian Military cemetery in Sevastopol
The Brotherhood Cemetery (Russian: Братское кладбище, romanized: Bratskoe kladbishche; Ukrainian: Братське кладовище, romanized: Bratske kladovyshche) is an Imperial Russian military cemetery in Sevastopol. It was founded in 1854 as a temporary burial place for Russian soldiers and officers who were killed during the first siege of Sevastopol.
Three burial sites were created according to order of Admiral Vladimir Kornilov near the northern fort of Sevastopol. Ten the cemeteries were united because of severe casualties among the defenders of the besieged Russian city. It is estimated that 100,000 to 127,000 Russian military men were buried there.
The cemetery has 472 collective and 130 individual graves. The collective graves each contain 50–100 or more bodies of soldiers. The individual graves contain the bodies of officers.
Famous Russian military commanders buried there are:
Eduard Ivanovich Totleben
Stepan Khrulyov
Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov.
In 1870, in the upper part of the cemetery hill, a pyramidal Orthodox Saint Nicholas church was built.
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