Antakalnis Cemetery is an active cemetery in the Antakalnis Direct on the east side of the Lithuanian capital city Vilnius. The word "Antakalnis" in the Lithuanian language means "on top of the hill." The cemetery was established in 1809. With good reason, this cemetery is often referred to as being Antakalnis Military Cemetery: Twelve of the fourteen victims of Soviet Army forces' attacks during the January Events of 1991 and the Medininkai Massacre were buried here. Other military graves include those of Polish soldiers perished from 1919 to 1920; a memorial for the fallen Lithuanian, as well as German and Russian Soldiers, of World War I; and the Red Army soldiers of World War II. In 2003, over 3,000 French and other soldiers of the Grand Army of Napoleon I, who took part in the 1812 invasion of Russia, were reburied in this cemetery after their bodies were excavated from their original graves in 2001. Their original graves were French-dug trenches that were used by the victorious Russians for mass unmarked graves. French and Lithuanian diplomats participated in their re-interment ceremony. The remains of eighteen more bodies were found and reburied in November 2010. The grounds are very beautiful similar to a public park with wandering sidewalks. The cemetery's mismatched monuments and grave markers reflect varying points of view from religious, political, cultural and eras of Lithuanian history. There is a section where the actors, poets and writers are buried; each of them having their own unique marker. There another section where KGB officers and NKVD soldiers of the postwar period lie in communist peace with no religious ornamentation; instead a single red star decorates each of the identical graves bearing names in Cyrillic. A new memorial plague dated from 2009 states that the Russian government had funded the restorations of this section of the cemetery after many years of neglect. There are many famous countrymen buried here. As one person described those resting here, "The cemetery holds the remains of foreign occupying armies and armies passing through; the peacemakers and the traitors; the priests and the atheists; the artists and the pragmatists". There are no Jewish graves in Antakalnis Cemetery; the old main Jewish Cemetery in Vilnius was destroyed during the Soviet occupation. Another point of this cemetery's description is that the old parish cemetery of St. Peter and Paul Church has been also referred to as Antakalnis Cemetery, but actual name is the Saulės Cemetery.