Moscow Graves More Expensive Than Apartments


At $10,000 per square meter, gravesites at Moscow’s Vagan’kovskoe Cemetery cost more than an elite apartment downtown. The cemetery’s current residents include some famous and infamous Russians, including:

Vladimir Vysotsky, Russia’s Bob Dylan. Admirers make a pilgrimage to his grave every July on the anniversary of his death. Grave below

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Igor Talikov, singer & poet assassinated on a St. Petersburg stage. The killer was never caught. Grave below.

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Otari Kvantrishvili, mobster and former wrestling champ. Grave below.

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Sources: Pravda, Find A Grave

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