On Sunday, September 18, 2016, at noon in the fence of Pavlovsky Cathedral of Gatchina, the monument to soldiers of the North-West Army was consecrated to lieutenant Count Pavel Shuvalov (1891–1919) and Second Lieutenant Georgy Navrotsky (1899–1919), the press office of St. Petersburg Mitrofanievsky reported. Union
Both officers who fought in the ranks of the North-Western Army died in the fall of 1919 in battles with the Bolsheviks on the outskirts of Tsarskoye Selo. Both of them were buried in the fence of the Pavlovsky Cathedral with the blessing of the abbot of the church, Archpriest John the Epiphany (the future bishop of Tallinn Isidore). The wooden crosses on the graves that had been preserved for a long time (until the 1950s) were lost.
Now, a monument of white marble on a black granite base has been erected over the grave of the warriors. Above the monument stands an onion of light Carrara marble, topped with a cross. On the monument are carved the names of the fallen soldiers and the date of their lives. Above are the coats of arms of the family of the Counts Shuvalov and Navrotsky. Between the coats of arms is an image of a North-Western Army armband with a White Cross, in a crown of thorns - a symbol of the heroism and sacrifice of the soldiers of the North-Western Army who committed a heroic march to liberate Petrograd. The shape of the monument and onions with a cross echoes the shape of many of the monuments to the White soldiers and Russian emigrants, built on one of the most famous cemeteries of the Russian Diaspora - the Saint-Genevieve de Bois cemetery near Paris (France).
The monument was erected at the initiative of the editor of the Mikhailov Den journal Sergey Zirin (Yamburg), the Yamburg military fraternity of the Archangel Michael and the St. Petersburg Mitrofanievsky Union.
With the blessing of Archpriest Vladimir Feer, rector of the Pavlovsky Cathedral, Chairman of the Commission for Canonization of the Gatchina Diocese, the exact burial place of the Russian officers who fought under the banners of the North-Western Army was found at the altar of the church.
Behind the altar of the cathedral, its first rector, Archpriest Vladimir Slavinsky (1824–2.03.1890), was also buried. White soldiers were buried south of his grave, on the same line with her.
Under the ringing of bells from Pavlovsky Cathedral to the grave of soldiers of the North-Western Army, the Cathedral was led by the head of the cathedral, dean of the Gatchina city district, Archpriest Vladimir Feer, who headed the rite of consecration of the monument. After reading the prayer "From the Spirits of the Righteous ...", Father Vladimir performed the rite of consecration of the monument, and also poured out onto the grave the ground brought from the Kokad cemetery in Nice, from the grave of General N. Yudenich and the white soldiers who died and were buried very far from Russia: not only in Western Europe, but also in South America.
After the consecration of the monument, the Eternal Memory was announced to the fallen officers. A brief word to the audience (more than a hundred people prayed at the monument’s consecration) was addressed by the Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg Mitrofani Union, I. Popov, the coordinator of the Memorial Educational and Historical and Cultural Center "White Case" O. Shevtsov, an active participant in establishing a memorial plate on the burial place of General B.S. Permikina in Salzburg A. Gromov.
Flowers were laid on the grave. In front of the monument is a lamp lamp.