The Russian Orthodox Cemetery in Novo-Diveevo, also known as the cemetery of the Novo-Diveevo Monastery, is the largest Russian Orthodox cemetery in the USA. It is located at the Novo-Diveevo Assumption Monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the settlement of Nanuet, New York, and is the final resting place for about 7,000 people.
The initiator of the cemetery's creation was Protopresbyter Adrian Rymarenko, who arrived in the USA in 1949. He decided to establish a monastery with a cemetery, a nursing home, and a hospital. A few years later, thanks to donations, a vacant estate of a Catholic monastery in Spring Valley was acquired, where Protopresbyter Adrian arranged the cemetery.
The monastery cemetery often received the deceased from France, Brazil, Morocco, and other countries where Russian emigrants lived.
Most of the gravestones are quite simple and usually consist of stone, granite, or marble Russian Orthodox crosses. A monument to the cadets is installed in the cemetery, made of black marble and topped with a gilded dome with a cross. On its facade, in a special recess, the words are engraved on a gray granite slab: "To the cadets who laid down their lives on the battlefield, killed in turmoil, and those who passed away in peace, and to the glorious past of the Russian cadet corps, which raised generations of faithful sons of historical Russia, dedicated by the scattered cadets around the world, but not severed. 1994." There is also a memorial to A. A. Vlasov and the fighters of the ROA on the cemetery grounds, which remained the only one in the world until the early 1990s.
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