Russian cemetery

How to get to the Russian cemetery from railway station area?

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If you mean the cathedral it is a 10/15 minute walk

turn right out of the Station until you Gambetta; turn right under the Voie Rapide and turn left at Bd de Tsarewitch

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The Russian cathedral is really beautiful,hope you enjoy it.

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The Russian Cemetery is in Caucade -78 ave sainte Marguerite Nice

It has restricted opening times- sunday and tuesday afternoons - 2pm-5pm

wednesday to saturday 9am-12 and 2pm-5pm

Closed monday

Also may be closed on Russian orthodox holy days.

Bus number 8 from station JC Bermond - near bus station but not at the bus station at Allée de la Résistance et de la Déportation to bus stop caucade which should be the nearest stop to the smaller cemeteries.

Its a place i keep meaning to go but haven%26#39;t got round to .yet so i can%26#39;t confirm the exact stop

NB it is not in the huge cemetery called cimetière 1

The russian cemetery is behind the english cemetery now called cimetière Ste Marguerite. There is apparently a notice board in Russian.

current timetable for number 8 bus

lignedazur.com/ftp/…29.pdf

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Should have said take tram from train station stop Gare Thiers to -tram stop Opera/veille ville - station JC bermond is just a couple of mins walk . You can re-use the one euro tram ticket on the bus to the cemetery- just revalidate it when you get on the bus

It will cost you another one euro on the way back- use on bus then for the tram connection

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If you are interested in the history of the imperial Russian presence on the Riviera - if that is the right term - the cemetery in Menton has many tombs and mausoleums of the pre-revolutionary Russian origins

http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tp/de169/

Troubetzkoy and others are here along with what looks like half the imperial court of the Tsars.

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Thank you all for your advice. We shall be on a cruise stopping at Cannes for some 7 hours only - so Nice will be the only possibility. We hope to combine visits to both the Russian church and the cemetery.

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NB The russian cathedral is shut between 12 and 14.30

There is also a russian church in Nice which is is in a different part of Nice from the cathedral - rue de Longchamp where it meets Marechal Joffre near the pedestrian area in Nice Centre

This is the oldest russian church ouitside Russia = 1859 - so considerably older than the cathedral but I don%26#39;t think its possible to visit apart from services -though its an interesting building from outside. Vastly different from the moscow-style cathedral with onion domes etc

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There is a russian church called Saint Michel Archange at Cannes built in 1894

The address is

40 boulevard Alexandre III

1, Impasse des Deux Eglises

06400 Cannes

Its apparently not considered to be completely within the orthodox church currently due to some complicated ecclesiastical situation but it was strictly orthodox when built

It can be visited on weekdays with prior appointmet on this number

09 93 43 35 35

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Thanks a lot for such deep review of the historical sites associated with Russian history.

As most of guide books in russian is actually translation from existing english books, it is not so much info about these ia available.

Alternatively, we have an author who is write about a Tsar Riveara, but without any reference how to get there.

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v-a-pros = you wrote %26#39;Alternatively, we have an author who is write about a Tsar Riveara, but without any reference how to get there.%26#39;

I%26#39;m not sure what you mean -can you explain this differently?

Btw the poorer Russian folk stayed in the Pension Russe on rue Gounod - the hotel is now called the Hotel Oasis - Tchekov spent 4 winters in the pensione and wrote The Three sisters there and Lenin stayed there in 1911.

Minor royalty and the aristos stayed in a variety of places but especially in the areas of Nice called Tzarevich and parc Imperial