In this photograph, 6 newly-placed granite gravestones memorializing Russian sailors who died in 1863 or 1864 are visible. That was different! A section of Green-Wood’s Hill of Graves, 19th century public lots created on what was then the edge of the cemetery’s grounds. And each of them had what I recognized as a Russian flag next to it. As I observed, the hill in Public Lot 8999 was dotted with newly-installed granite, slant-front gravestones. Looking at the Hill of Graves, and the cluster of public lots there, it soon became apparent that something had changed. That was the case when I was recently out on Meadow Avenue, to mark the grave of a Civil War veteran for the installation of his Department of Veterans Affairs-issued gravestone. And sometimes I see things that are recent additions to the grounds. With 574,000 interments, 7,000 trees, and tens of thousands of gravestones, there is so much to see! Sometimes I notice, for the first time, things that have been out there for a century or more. I am usually out on the cemetery grounds a few times a week. But I never thought that I would be blogging about Russia. ![]() Green-Wood stories–and my blog posts–touch upon many diverse topics.
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