Lviv, Ukraine
At the Lychakiv cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv the bodies keep the score.
Within its confines the more than 300,000 graves offer a tangled insight into the labyrinthine history of this eastern European city that even now goes by four different names.
There are Polish generals, mathematicians and philosophers; Ukrainian composers, theologians and playwrights; Soviet and Russian aviators, inventors and academics.
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