Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, is buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery. His grave was designed by modern artist Ernst Neizvestny, whom Khruschev had denounced as an enemy of the state for his "degenerate art." (Khruschev apparently hated modern art, and would have abhorred his tomb, had he been alive to see it.)
