Grave of Russian doctor Yelizaveta Shapilovskaya in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Yelizaveta Alexandrovna Shapilovskaya, nee Andreyanova, served as a nurse and late as a doctor of the Drozdovsky Rifle Division of the White Army during the Russian Civil War. Her husband professor Vladimir Pavlovich Shapilovsky, a colonel in the White Army, who died on July 12, 1954, and her sister Vera Alexandrovna Fridman, nee Andreyanova, who died on June 15, 1961, were buried in the same burial niche late. The Dormition church at the Olsany Ce


Grave of Russian doctor Yelizaveta Shapilovskaya in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Yelizaveta Alexandrovna Shapilovskaya, nee Andreyanova, served as a nurse and late as a doctor of the Drozdovsky Rifle Division of the White Army during the Russian Civil War. Her husband professor Vladimir Pavlovich Shapilovsky, a colonel in the White Army, who died on July 12, 1954, and her sister Vera Alexandrovna Fridman, nee Andreyanova, who died on June 15, 1961, were buried in the same burial niche late. 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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