At the New Cemetery in Belgrade lies the Russian necropolis, located deep within the grounds. Here rest Russians who emigrated after the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War, as well as their descendants who remained in Yugoslavia.

Upon entering the necropolis, visitors are greeted by a statue of an Angel with a sword, mounted on a pedestal shaped like a shell. The sculpture was created by R. N. Verkhovsky in 1935. The pedestal bears an inscription expressing gratitude to Russia: "Eternal memory to Emperor Nicholas II and 2,000,000 Russian soldiers of the Great War..." Beneath the monument is a crypt designed by R. N. Verkhovsky and V. V. Stashevsky in 1935, where the remains of about 400 Russian soldiers and officers who fell on the Salonika front during the Great War of 1914-1918 are buried. The idea for the monument belongs to Colonel Mikhail Skorodumov, who organized fundraising among Russian emigrants and citizens of royal Yugoslavia, including members of the royal family. Next to the monument is the Iberian Chapel, designed by V. V. Stashevsky in 1930. The chapel houses the crypt of Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky), who was buried in 1936. The chapel was built on donations and is a replica of the Iberian Chapel of the Mother of God, destroyed by the Bolsheviks in Moscow.