The legend that the heart of M.I. Golenishchev-Kutuzov was buried in a foreign land was refuted back in 1933. On September 4, 1933, a special commission headed by the director of the Museum of the History of Religion of the USSR Academy of Sciences opened the crypt in which M. I. Golenishchev-Kutuzov was buried on the territory of the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Based on the results of the autopsy, a report was drawn up, which noted that human bones with remains of matter and “a silver jar containing an embalmed heart” were found in a zinc coffin. Thus, it was officially established that the ashes of M. I. Golenishchev-Kutuzov, along with an embalmed heart, were buried according to the Orthodox rite in the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in St. Petersburg.
