Olšany Cemeteries, including: Writers, artists, and actors Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), mathematician Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821–1856), writer Jaroslav Čermák (1831–1878), painter Viktor Dyk (1877–1931), writer and conservative politician Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870), writer Rudolf Hrušínský (1920–1994), actor Václav Kliment Klicpera (1792–1859), playwright Ján Kollár (1793–1852), Slovak Lutheran pastor, philologist and writer Josef Lada (1887–1957), artist and writer Viktor Oliva (1861–1928), artist Ossi Oswalda (1897–1947), German actress in silent film Jan Rejsa (1886–1971), artist, editor, and writer Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861), Slovak philologist and historian Antonín Slavíček (1870–1910), painter Ladislav Stroupežnický (1850–1892), playwright Jan Erazim Vocel (1803–1871), poet, archaeologist, historian and cultural revivalist Jiří Voskovec (1905–1981), actor and playwright Jan Werich (1905–1980), actor Politicians Karel Kramář (1860–1937), politician and first Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (November 1918 – July 1919) and his Russian wife Nadezhda (1862-1936) are buried in the crypt of the Dormition Church (Chrám Zesnutí přesvaté Bohorodice) in the Orthodox section of the cemetery Jan Syrový (1888–1970), general and Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia during the Munich Crisis (September–December 1938), as well as acting President following the resignation of Edvard Beneš Radola Gajda (1892–1948), military officer (and eventually general) with the Czechoslovak Legions in World War I and the Russian Civil War; later one of the founders of the fascist (yet anti-German) National Fascist Community and member of the Czechoslovakian Parliament Klement Gottwald (1896–1953), communist President of Czechoslovakia (1948–1953); his body was originally displayed in a mausoleum at the site of the Jan Žižka monument. In 1962 the body was cremated, the ashes returned to the Žižka Monument and placed in a sarcophagus. In 1990, Gottwald's ashes were moved to Olšany Cemetery, together with the ashes of about 20 other communist leaders which had also originally been placed in the Žižka Monument. Piotra Krecheuski (1879–1928), Belarusian statesman and president of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile. Vasil Zacharka (1877–1943), Belarusian politician, activist, president of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile. Others Jan Palach (1948–1969), student who set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square (Prague) as a protest against the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia Pavel Roman (1943–1972), winner of four consecutive titles (1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965) in ice dancing at the World Figure Skating Championships with his sister Eva Jake Madden (1865–1948), Scottish footballer and later Manager of SK Slavia Praha for 25 years References External links Cemetery details (in Czech) Olšany Cemetery (photo