Not Far from the Sporteevnaya Station is a graveyard in Moscow which contains graves of many famous people: leaders, engineering heros, heros of various battles, and the list goes on. Amongst the many traditional gravestones - usually they are black or grey with a plaque and picture of the person, are some much more provocative stones. It is easy to forget that one is walking through a busy city while walking through this yard as it is quiet/peaceful. I noticed, though, this crazy headstone for Nikita Kruschev and was taken back by how unorthodox its style is.
This grave stands out clearly from the others around it on the main walkway towards the end of the first section of the graveyard - not out in open view, but you cannot walk by without thinking : here is a guy I can imagine who would thump his shoes on a microphone and tell the west, "We Will Bury You." I never knew much about Kruschev other than propaganda I had read from a very Westernized history text until a political scientist in the former USSR told me that this guy, as far as she could figure out, was incredibly progressive and unorthodox and represents a serious thaw after the Stalinist era and a move in a very new direction. I can imagine that before he died, he wrote to his caretakers and said something like this, " no traditional gravestone for me thanks. I want something that says bold, grey, and sticks out like a sore thumb."
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