Yeltsin buried far from Red Square but among Russian elite
MOSCOW -- Set on a knoll overlooking an oxbow bend in the Moscow River, the hallowed ground of the Novodevichy Cemetery holds the remains of scores of engineers, artists and politicians who helped shape Russia's tormented past century.
They include the loved and the loathed, the tragic and the triumphant.
Boris Yeltsin, who was buried there Wednesday, was all of these.
He was laid to rest far from Lenin's Tomb in Red Square. Yeltsin's burial at the Kremlin wall, where top Communist officials were interred, would have been unthinkable for the man who helped bring down the Soviet Union.
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They include the loved and the loathed, the tragic and the triumphant.
Boris Yeltsin, who was buried there Wednesday, was all of these.
He was laid to rest far from Lenin's Tomb in Red Square. Yeltsin's burial at the Kremlin wall, where top Communist officials were interred, would have been unthinkable for the man who helped bring down the Soviet Union.