Venezia - Cimitero di S. Michele in Isola

BAGRATION Catherine, Princesse

1783 - 1857, Venice

first Russian feminist and spy, wife of general Peter Bagration

BRODSKY Joseph

24.5.1940. St. Petersburg - 28.1.1996, Venice

The Nobel Prize in Literatur 1987, poet, since 1972 in exile

CERESA Pacifico

11.5.1833 - 29.10.1905, Venice

Politician, senator of Republic Italy

CLARKE Ashley, Sir

26.6.1903 - 20.1.1994

British Ambassador to Italy 1953-62, Honorary Cinizen of Venice

DAL ZOTTO Antonio

d. 1918, Venice

sculptor

DIAGHILEW Serge

31.3.1872, Nowgorod - 19.8.1929, Venice

founder of "Ballets Russes", after 1917 has never visited Russia

DOPPLER Christian

29.1..1803, Salzburg - 17.3.1853, Venice

mathematician, discover Doppler Effect

GALLINA Giacinto

1852 - 1857, Venice

playwriter, theatremaker

HERRERA Helenio

10.4.1916, Buenos Aires - 9.11.1997, Venice

world wide famous soccer player

MOLMENTI Pompeo

1.9.1852, Venice - 24.1.1928, Roma

Venice historian and poltician, novelist and journalist

NONO Luigi

29.1.1924, Venice - 8.5.1990, Venice

revolutionary music composer

POUND Ezra Weston Loomis

30.10.1885, Hailey, Idaho - 1.11.1972, Venice

American poet, fanatic defending fascism

ROBERT Louis Leopold

13.5.1794, Neuchatel - 20.3.1835, Venice

French painter, born in Switzerland

RUDGE Olga

13.4.1895, Ohio - 15. 3. 1995, Merano

wife of Ezra Pound, violinist

SELVATICO Riccardo

16.4.1849, Venice - 21.8. 1901, Venice

Mayor of Venice

STRAVINSKY Igor

17.6.1882, Oranienbaum - 6.4.1971, New York

one of the most creative musician of the 20th century, musical counterpart of Picasso, working also with Diaghilew, living in exile

TROUBETZKOY Catherine

1816 - 1898

Russian princesse