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Georgian patriarch visits historic cemetery in Moscow

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Georgian Patriarch Ilia II on Friday visited All Saints Church in Moscow. (Photo: Salome Tsertsvadze and Ekaterina Tkachenko.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Patriarch Ilia II Friday visited the All Saints Church in Sokol, in northern Moscow.

The church is the site of a now defunct graveyard where there are buried many well-known Georgians and royals. There has been construction work in

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How one man tried to save Moscow cemetery

Possbly bits of a tombstone dug up during the construction of a new brick building on top of the cemetery. (Photo: Georgiy Ramazashvili.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgiy Ramazashvili, a Moscow-based archival researcher, in July 2011 discovered that there was new construction work on a historic cemetery in Moscow where many Georgian royals, nobles and historic persons are buried. After Georgian and Russian media

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Georgia protests destruction of royal grave in Moscow

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, a prince and writer who lived in the 18th century, is buried at Vsesvyatsky Cemetery in Moscow.

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Foreign Ministry has formally protested against how Russia is treating a royal cemetary in Moscow.

Tbilisi believes that authorities in Moscow are going ahead with construction work on the cemetary, which contains the graves of the

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