Edith Södergran's Grave

The grave and monument of the poet Edith Södergran are located in a square by the lake on Sovetskaya Street in Roshchino, on the high bank of Lake Okamo. The monument is a parallelepiped made of dark stone, installed in 1960 at the initiative of Finnish writers at the site of her approximate burial. For the first ten years, a wooden cross stood on the grave, which in 1933 was replaced by a narrow monument created by sculptor Wäinö Aaltonen, erected by the Union of Finland-Swedish Writers. The grave of the poetess, buried in the Orthodox cemetery of Raivola almost in the home yard, is included in the register of cultural heritage objects under number 4710068000.