Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery

Saint-Petersburg, Russia
14/10/2026

This little rascal followed us around as we visited a cemetery in central Germany the other day. He was a real sweetie, he loved head scratches and played in the grass and on the stairs as we looked at the headstones. What a cutie!

So Pappy insisted we take him home after we exited a local restaurant in our small lake town in northeast Ohio. We had mourned our best buddy, Ripley our dog of eleven years for a little over a year by then. Pappy brought the joy back in our home that we were missing that was January 2023.

Walked about the cemetery. Oldest grave marker - 1953. No idea where pre '53 people would be. Took some pics that caught my eye. A cat, Prince, color...is Mathilde a question mark or part of a cello?

He ecame out of the cemetery on Halloween in 2021 and has been with us ever since but he loves to go back for a visit and my wife walks him there several times a week