Sainte Geneviève des Bois - le cimetière russe

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/10792231205/" title="2011 nov day 7 DSC_0276 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2011 nov day 7 DSC_0276" height="800" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3795/10792231205_e2834dfcd1_c.jpg" width="532" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sainte Geneviève des Bois</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Russian Orthodox Cemetery is not highly regarded by the locals of this small town and many do not even know of its existence.  I made the trip to see the <a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2011/11/pilgrimage-to-saint-genevieve-des-bois.html" target="_blank">tombstone of Rudolph Nureuev</a> and found the carpet of <a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2012/11/sainte-genevieve-des-bois-le-cimetiere.html" target="_blank">fallen ginko leaves as a bonus</a>.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wherever I have traveled in the world, I visit and photograph the cemeteries.  Although this cemetery is not well-maintained, there was a quiet beauty of the season, silent and colorful with autumn leaves.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Russian Orthodox Cemetery</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Sainte Geneviève des Bois - le cimetière russe

Sainte Geneviève des Bois The Russian Orthodox Cemetery is not highly regarded by the locals of this small town and many do not even know of...

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Sainte Geneviève des Bois - le cimetière russe

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCMphPXuaYYUmzXnk61NfxYKwuKWzNj9CASFtFjPMZHcemcqfoqu8opHLmOQkA5Ar1OhiZLKp8Cjm7Mwbtm3RzwA1OMi72STxBZte1xfygPaVlSR0_0FK1g_la5JpnRlE71E6g5A7GlU0/s1600/2011+Nov+day+7+DSC_0275.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCMphPXuaYYUmzXnk61NfxYKwuKWzNj9CASFtFjPMZHcemcqfoqu8opHLmOQkA5Ar1OhiZLKp8Cjm7Mwbtm3RzwA1OMi72STxBZte1xfygPaVlSR0_0FK1g_la5JpnRlE71E6g5A7GlU0/s1600/2011+Nov+day+7+DSC_0275.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sainte Genevieve des Bois</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Russian Orthodox Cemetery, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">final resting place of dancer Rudolph Nureyev</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">seen here with a carpet of gold Ginko leaves</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Sainte Geneviève des Bois - le cimetière russe

Sainte Genevieve des Bois The Russian Orthodox Cemetery,  final resting place of dancer Rudolph Nureyev seen here with a carpet of gold Gink...

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A Pilgrimage to Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4BcAAIdSLTidZ4MGi2CnpkwvBD_LoKeXgmGNZVy9714vCRKurKX3yortQQ0mlZrZnBzCbqaOU-nAL1k80cmSqBs26Z7gUDtnbKgvqxyiPPVgp4guFObngR8XSEn83pFZxh354G5Fvt0/s1600/2011+nov+7+DSC_0301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4BcAAIdSLTidZ4MGi2CnpkwvBD_LoKeXgmGNZVy9714vCRKurKX3yortQQ0mlZrZnBzCbqaOU-nAL1k80cmSqBs26Z7gUDtnbKgvqxyiPPVgp4guFObngR8XSEn83pFZxh354G5Fvt0/s640/2011+nov+7+DSC_0301.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For years I have wanted to see this amazing tribute to Rudolph Nureyev, a fringed kilim rug meticulously crafted in bronze and glass mosaics by Ezio Frigerio.  The loose drapes of rug over the "traveling trunk" is a bright gem in the Russian Orthodox Cemetery, an homage to Nureyev's Bashkir heritage.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">His funeral, the civil ceremony, was at Opéra Garnier in the rococo foyer after an elegant procession up the grand staircase.  The devotees of Nureyev payed their respects as an orchestra played Tchaikovsky and Bach.  The splendor of Garnier was left behind and he was buried in the Russian cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One week ago, Peter (<a href="http://peter-pho2.blogspot.com/2011/11/russian-cemetery-nureyev.html">Peter's Paris</a>) and I made the journey by train, by bus, and on foot to the remote town.  As a town it is oblivious to the cemetery and does not encourage the tourists with signs of direction.  For two hours we saw only the custodians of the cemetery as we walked among the graves, a quiet time in this spectacular resting place of the great dancer and choreographer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To read more about Rudolph Nureyev, the biography <u>Nureyev, the Life (2007)</u> by Julie Kavanagh is spellbinding.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHGp3nOYsTEhpUCHgy8JD-rdk1fEW2BfaUIMsZPYMqfk-c_-VRpNt5tTfv5-sBSIKG18hPmA9PRJcdZl_5-T5rforP8sj3kTlaMTzWwcDI51PsbCohHoYB2X9AUiKbqzfvLHrJXuxURw/s1600/2011+nov+7+DSC_0303.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHGp3nOYsTEhpUCHgy8JD-rdk1fEW2BfaUIMsZPYMqfk-c_-VRpNt5tTfv5-sBSIKG18hPmA9PRJcdZl_5-T5rforP8sj3kTlaMTzWwcDI51PsbCohHoYB2X9AUiKbqzfvLHrJXuxURw/s320/2011+nov+7+DSC_0303.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><em>Rudolph Nureyev (1938-1993)</em><br /><em>Russian Orthodox Cemetery</em><br /><em>Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois</em>

A Pilgrimage to Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

For years I have wanted to see this amazing tribute to Rudolph Nureyev, a fringed kilim rug meticulously crafted in bronze and glass mosaics...

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