The Alexander Nevsky Lavra is a place of attraction in St. Petersburg. Established by the order of the Peter the Great, in 1710, the monastery became one of the first buildings of the Russian Northern capital together with Peter-and-Paul Fortress. Russian and foreign architects participated in creating the ensemble of Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Among those who took part in designing and constructing its churches were such eminent architects as Domenico Trezini, Peter Eropkin, Michael Zemtsov, and sculptor F. Shubin, and many others. There are three cemeteries in the Lavra named after the churches situated on its territory: Lazarevskoye, Tihvinskoye, and Nikolskoye cemeteries. Suvorov, Lomonosov, Dostoevsky, and Tchaikovsky are buried here.
