RAADI CEMETERY IN TARTU, ESTONIA
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  Example of modern design: the Matjus family burial ground (photo U. Jukk)

Funerary monument with sarcophagus
and canopy
on E. J. Sidorova's grave
(photo U. Jukk)

Sculpture on
Margarita Kodasova's grave (1911-1938) (photo U. Jukk)

Main gate
Raadi Cemetery
(photo K. Lange)

Funerary column
on Professor Siegfrid Talvik's grave
(1878-1929)
(sculptor: E. Joesaar, 1936)

 

 

Raadi,  in the city of Tartu,
is one of the most significant cemeteries in Estonia,
and currently includes several
smaller graveyards.
Tartu boasts a long history
as the educational, cultural
and scientific hub of Estonia.
A university was established
here in 1632.
A number of outstanding scientists, university lecturers and students have been buried
in Raadi.
The oldest cemetery in Raadi
is Vana-Jaani(Old Jaani), formerly a property of
the German congregation
of St John's church.
It was officially opened
on November 5, 1773. 
The celebrities buried at
Vana-Jaani include Carl Ernst
von Baer (1792-1876),
biologist and founder of embryology;

 
C.E. Claus
(1796-1864), discoverer
of ruthenium, the author
of the Estonian epic
"Kalevipoeg", Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803-1882).
Another small cemetery,
Maarja, north-west of
Vana-Jaani, was founded
in 1773 as a graveyard for
the Estonian congregation
of St John's church.
North-west of Maarja cemetery lies Uspenski, which was
founded in 1773 as an
Orthodox cemetery.
Ludvig Puusepp (1875-1942), one of the earliest neurosurgeons, founder of
the first neurology hospital,
is buried there.
The University cemetery is
in the north-eastern corner
of Raadi.