compensation: nearby Polish lands were seen as cash source while Moldova had to be ceded to the Turks anyway. Catherine preferred to suit both parties and engaged in the Partitions of Poland while the war in the South protracted until 1774. Orlov, dismissed from the court, retired for a long tour of Europe. City planning In a move to control disease, authorities banned any burials in the traditional parish cemeteries inside the city of Moscow. Instead, they set up a chain of new cemeteries outside the city limits. This ring of cemeteries, established in 1771 (Vagankovo and others) is mostly extant today; some were razed to make way for new construction (Dorogomilovo cemetery), some, also destroyed, are now public parks (Lazarevskoe cemetery). Rogozhskoye cemetery, east of Moscow, became and remains a leading Old Believers shrine. See also List of epidemics Second plague pandemic Notes References 1770 disease outbreaks 1771 disease outbreaks 1772 disease outbreaks Second plague pandemic Disease outbreaks in Russia 18th-century epidemics 18th century in Moscow 1770 in the Russian Empire 1771 in the Russian Empire 1772 in the Russian Empire