The cemetery complex Olshansky, which is located in the district of Prague called Vinohrady, consists of three parts. On one there are graves of Orthodox citizens of Prague, on the other – the Jews, the third - Czechs. On the Jewish side of the cemetery you can see the grave of Franz Kafka. You need to find a site 21 and pass along the wall.

The Orthodox sector of the cemetery served as the final resting place of many immigrants from post-revolutionary Russia. Here you can find burial writers A. Averchenko and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, singer V. Levitsky, mother of Vladimir Nabokov and see a plaque with the mention of the whites. On the Orthodox side of the cemetery and placed three of the memorial dedicated to the Czech soldiers who fell during the battles of the First world war, the Soviet soldiers who liberated Prague from the Nazi-German invaders, and the British victims of the second world war.

If you go across the street Jana Želivského, you might be on the Czech side of the cemetery. Earlier this churchyard was used for burials of those who died during the plague. Then the cemetery has grown and has become quite popular not only among ordinary people but among the noble families of Bohemia. Here you can see a lot of rich tombs and crypts, buried aristocrats, politicians, actors and so on. On this part of the cemetery were reburied the ashes of the leader of the Communist party of the Czech Republic K. Gottwald. Until the early 70-ies of the last century it was in the mausoleum at Vitkovskaya mountain.

Cemetery great – its territory covers 50 hectares, but to walk on it interesting. It resembles the most famous necropolises of the world type Novodevichy and Pere Lachaise.