Immediately east of the Cathedral at the bottom of the hill, the poignant Old City Cemetery was opened in 1831 after the cholera epidemic of the same year. Actually comprised of three cemeteries for the burial of members of the city’s Catholic, Russian Orthodox and non-believer communities, the cemetery is now closed with the exception of the occasional important burial. Among the many buried here are various family members of the wife of the Lithuanian painter and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Sofia Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė (1886-1958), a Lithuanian soldiers’ plot and Kazimieras Venclauskis, whose former house is one the many places worth visiting when in town (see Places of interest). A map of the cemetery can be found next to the main gate, found along Ežero on the right if walking away from the city centre.