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The burial of protodeacon Dmitry Lvovsky, a prominent figure in the Orthodox Church in Japan, and two other Russians found at a cemetery in Tokyo, have been taken into the care of the Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots (CCRC) in Japan. The graves have been added to the database of the graves of Russian émigrés in Japan, and will receive proper care, the Moscow House of Compatriots reports.
The story of the three "abandoned" graves began with the publication in early April on the website of the Moscow House of Compatriots, an article by Vladimir Uspensky. He wrote that while working in Tokyo, he accidentally stumbled across the local cemetery of Somey on three graves with Orthodox crosses and inscriptions in Russian.
It was obvious that the graves had been unattended for many years, but it was possible to read that protodeacon Dmitry Lvovsky (died in 1920), the wife of doctor Neonila Blonskaya (1921) and Fyodor Khalin (1907) were buried in them. The author of the publication found a lot of information about Dmitry Lvovsky, who did a lot for the Orthodox Church in Japan and was a close friend of the uncle of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov.
The article attracted the attention of Tatyana Romanova, a member of CCRC in Japan and a scientific editor of Russian Science and Technologies review. Her colleagues and she managed to find graves. According to Romanova, they preserved well for hundreds of years. The participants of CCRC informed the cemetery management that they took the graves under their care. In the near future, compatriots intend to carry out repairment works on the graves.
Russkiy Mir
