Russian historian Konstantin Gerbeev examines the burial place of Karel Kramar, the first Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Karel Kramar, born on December 17, 1860, was a Czech (Bohemian) politician and the first Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from November 1918 to July 1919. He died at age 76 on May 26, 1937, and was buried next to his Russian wife Nadezhda Kramar, who died five months earlier. The Dormition church at the Olsany Cemetery was built in 1924-1925 by the Russian white emigre.
Russian historian Konstantin Gerbeev examines the burial place of Karel Kramar, the first Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Karel Kramar, born on December 17, 1860, was a Czech (Bohemian) politician and the first Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from November 1918 to July 1919. He died at age 76 on May 26, 1937, and was buried next to his Russian wife Nadezhda Kramar, who died five months earlier. The Dormition church at the Olsany Cemetery was built in 1924-1925 by the Russian white emigre. The underground crypt was used as a burial place for the most notable persons of the Russian emigration in Czechoslovakia.
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