Marble sculpture of a woman on a tomb in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2014
Bronze sculpture of a man on a tomb in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 5, 2016
Iron sculpture of a man sleeping on a tomb in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2014
Bronze foot of a sculpture on a tomb in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2009
A sculpture on a tomb of David Bidwell in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2006
Sculpture on a tomb of Liovochka Elfimov (10/18/1907 - 8/10/1922) in Novodevichye Cemetery at Moskovskiy Prospekt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 15, 2011
Bronze sculpture of a man on a tomb in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 2, 2015
Sculpture on a tomb of Sheffel Tusen ka (died in 1929) in Novodevichye Cemetery at Moskovskiy Prospekt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 15, 2011
Congested accumulation of sculptures on tombs in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2014
Bronze sculptures of children on a tomb of Vonderbank in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, November 19, 2006
A weeping dog sculpture on a tomb of Francis Masich in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12, 2006
A sculpture of an angel on a tomb in White section of Carrollton Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 22, 2006
Marble sculpture of a woman sitting on a tomb in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2014
Sculpture atop of tumular tomb of Lodge No. 30, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, near the entrance of Greenwood Cemetery. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 9, 2007
Bronze sculpture of a lying person on a tomb in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2009
Fancy sculpture on a tomb of C. G. Saurenman (1865 - 1896) in Calvert Cemetery. Calvert, Texas, September 12, 2009
Marble sculpture on a tomb of Tusenka Sheffel in Novodevichye Cemetery at Moskovskiy Prospekt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 22, 2015
J. Christ sculpture on a tomb of Elizaveta Iosifovna Malinina in Novodevichye Cemetery at Moskovskiy Prospekt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 22, 2015
Sculpture of J. Christ on a tomb of Anna Akimovna Vershinina in Novodevichye Cemetery at Moskovskiy Prospekt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 22, 2015
Stone sculpture of a mourner on a tomb in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 5, 2016
Detail of a marble sculpture on a tomb of a Soviet ballerina A. Shelest in Literatorskie Mostki section of Volkovo Cemetery. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 13, 2016
Sculpture of a woman on a tomb of Hueck family in Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery on Dekabristov Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 28, 2016
This modest headstone in the Communist Section of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra commemorates P. S. Fedotov (1900-1931), a 31-year-old Bolshevik party member who was killed in the line of duty. The weathered inscription reads :0427:041b. :0412:041a:041f(:0431) - denoting his membership in the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks--and records his death with the Soviet administrative formula :043f:043e:0433:0438:0431 :043f:0440:0438 :0441:043b:0443:0436:0435:0431. :043e:0431:044f:0437. (short for :043f:043e:0433:0438:0431 :043f:0440:0438 :0438:0441:043f:043e:043b:043d:0435:043d:0438:0438 :0441:043b:0443:0436:0435:0431:043d:044b:0445 :043e:0431:044f:0437:0430:043d:043d:043e:0441:0442:0435:0439) on October 31, 1931 (notated as 31/X). In Leningrad during this era, such formal recognition alongside burial in an elite pantheon typically honored law enforcement operatives, OGPU security officers, or industrial managers who perished in violent confrontations with armed criminal gangs, counter-revolutionary elements, or fatal workplace emergencies. In sharp contrast to the monumental granite obelisks and constructivist steel sculptures of senior officials nearby, Fedotov[CloseCurlyQuote]s marker exemplifies the austere egalitarianism of early Soviet funerary culture. Proletarian ethics of the First Five-Year Plan discouraged bourgeois tomb ostentation, favoring minimal, unadorned markers that commemorated political dedication over personal grandeur. The memorial consists of a rough stone slab set into a concrete footing, punctuated by machine-drilled holes along the lower edge that reveal its origin as salvaged pre-revolutionary masonry or industrial scrap - a resourceful repurposing common during the construction shortages of early 1930s Leningrad. Covered in moss and decades of urban weathering, the stone preserves the hand-chiseled epitaph of a rank-and-file Soviet cadre buried on the grounds of an Orthodox monastery. Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 25, 2016
Sculpture on a tomb of Peters in Calvert Cemetery. Calvert, Texas, January 8, 2019
