Memento mori. Pics from Lychakiv Cemetery

If you've ran out of places to go to, come to Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.

graveyard

This is likely the signature sculpture of the place. Nice.

Lady and a child:

EU woman statue

This one with the stars and all... In loving memory of EU?

What's the meaning of this installment? Don't ask me... I know, I'd make a great guide! wtf statue

Ok, this is probably some noble good person who cared about children, but this monument is... well.. a little funny and awkward, sort of reminding you of Catholic child molesters scandal...

awkward statue

Another weird statue is this lady with erect nipples. Really? On a cemetery?
graveyard

These ones are all right:
stone faces

artsy grave stone

Weeping woman:

There were several of them, one was grieving over this poor Piotr guy:

As far as I can get Polish, a woman named Francesca was burried there in 1806
Francesca grave stone

First time in my life I saw family graves:

This one was probably the oldest grave we've come across, although evidently the plate has been replaced recently:

old century grave

Possibly the creepiest grave stone was this one: creepy grave stone kid

Memento mori, people!

published on 17-04-2016 under miscellaneous, personal notes

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Brian W.

18-04-2016

Looks interesting, Irina! I went to Lincoln's Cottage today. It's President Abraham Lincoln's summer home in Washington D.C. There was a huge cemetery where many war dead were buried.

It made me feel bad for them but grateful that I won't die young in a war (hopefully) and also aware of my own mortality.

Irina

20-04-2016

Do you like going to museums and historic sites?

I sometimes do, but am not fanatical about it. Crowds of people usually put me off and I'm like 'meh, I'll look it up on the net, when I'm comfortable'))))

It's sort of nice we don't go around thiking of our mortality all the time, eh?

Brian W.

20-04-2016

Privyet,

I like going to museums and historical sites but I don't take advantage of them enough. I live in Washington D.C. and I've never been inside the White House, although I've been in front of it many times

Most of the museums I haven't been to since I was a kid.

Irina

20-04-2016

Yep, one is more likely to visit museums in foreign countries than the ones in own city, those aren't going anywhere)))

theMeme

24-04-2016

Hhmm...are you sure that this statue with the niples is a she? Looks more like a transvestite to me, probably also transgenderвЂ¦ Maybe the sculptor wanted to make a statement against the prevailing lack of diversity on graveyards! No sign of the gender identity nor sexual orientation on the graves of the deceased...as if the patriarchal church wants to intentionally hide this important issues! And this gravestones .. they look very masculine to me! Aargh, that just makes me sick. It's time to do something against this scandalous state of affairs. Clearly, its time for a вЂ?diversity on graveyardsвЂ™ -movement..

Irina

25-04-2016

This was funny.