A Headstone for Anatoly Kuznetsov

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

A Headstone for Anatoly Kuznetsov

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Aim

To raise a headstone on the unmarked grave of Soviet dissident Anatoly Kuznetsov, the author of Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel.


Anatoly Kuznetsov is the author of Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel. His memoir is a masterpiece of Ukrainian literature and a testament to the 30,000 Jews massacred at Babyn Yar, Kyiv in September 1941. Kuznetsov is buried in Highgate Cemetery, two plots up fron Sir Ralph Richardson and just across from Patrick Caulfield and deserves to be just as celebrated. He defected to the UK in 1969 after finally losing faith in the Soviet Union after the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Pilgrims to the monument to Karl Marx walk past this anonymous plot every day without realising that they are passing the last resting place of one of the most eloquent witnesses to the horrific human cost of totalitarian ideology.

Who will help me raise the money for a headstone to memorialise this great writer?


This project successfully funded on 19th August 2022


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