For seven hundred years St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod was used for the burial of the most authoritative figures of history. In his necropolis buried the initiator of the construction of the Cathedral son of Yaroslav the Wise Vladimir, the famous warrior Mstislav the Brave, the greatest writer of the XIV century. Vasily Kalika, an outstanding associate of Peter I Feofan Prokopovich . The time and reconstruction of the temple led to the oblivion of the knowledge of the true topography of the Sofia pantheon, and the needs of church magnification of many of the saints buried gave rise to the XVII century. False topography of the necropolis . The book restores the reliable topography of the Sofia pantheon . For historians, archaeologists, art historians and all those interested in the history of our Motherland .