 Although the cemetery was officially closed in 1830 and was subject to gradual deterioration, there were further interments.Vilna Gaon, as well as other famous Vilnian Jews, were interred in the cemetery.During the years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the area on the right bank of the River Neris opposite the St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Antakalnis, a Royal Manor called "Derevnictva" (Polish