On May 13 and June 3, 2023, ELCIR volunteers traveled to Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Oblast, to do a cleanup in an old Lutheran cemetery which turned 245 this year! Sometimes called St. Regina Cemetery, this cemetery is 185 years older than the town of Vsevolozhsk and reflects an important part of the region’s history. The second … [Read more...]
Church and Historians Meet, Make Proposals on Future of Cemetery
On February 28, 2020, the ELCIR Theological Institute in Koltushi hosted a roundtable discussion, “The History of the Lutheran Cemetery on Nagornaya Street in Vsevolozhsk and Its Future.” The discussion was organized by Russkoye nasledie, a regional history association in Vsevolozhsk (chairperson I. N. Gureyeva-Doroshenko) and the Evangelical … [Read more...]