The cemetery of Passy, opened in 1820, is located in an affluent area on the right Bank of Paris, near the Champs elysées. Naturally it became the burial place of the Parisian aristocracy. There first appeared a heated room for mourning ceremonies – unprecedented luxury for the cemeteries of the time.

Passy – a small (only about 2000 graves) and a very interesting cemetery. Arranged as a hanging garden, it is above the Trocadero, but chestnut trees and a high wall it is not visible. On the wall facing the Trocadero, is expressive bas-relief of military glory, which appeared after the First world war.

In the cemetery many tombstones of the famous sculptor Rodin, Zadkine, landowski. Family vaults prominent families adorned with magnificent stained glass Windows. There are many relics of the people that were once in glory: the French policy of Edgar Faure, Gabriel Hanoteau, Alexander Myleran (12th President of France), the last Emperor of Vietnam Bao Dai, the artists Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, composers Claude Debussy, Jacques ibert, the auto company founder Marcel Renault, aviation pioneer Henri Farman, actor Fernandel...

The compositional center of the cemetery is a magnificent tomb of Mary Bashkirtseva (1858 -1884). The artist, who died at age 25 from tuberculosis, life kept a diary, after her death, published and translated into many languages. Bashkirtseva was the first Slavic artist whose work was purchased by the Louvre, but I know its mainly for the diary. Tsvetaeva and admired Bruce Bashkirtseva, Rozanov same contrasted her strikingly candid account of "the Diary of a Russian woman" Elizabeth Dyakonova. Itself Dyakonov wrote about the diary Bashkirtseva: "the Poor of the nineteenth century! It was reflected in selfish, weak and immoral man." However, it later turned out that the published was not the original – almost all records censored the girl's family. 84 Mary Bashkirtseva notebooks are kept in the National library of France.

In the crypt of the work of Emile bastien-Lepage declared a historical monument, recreated workshop Bashkirtseva. There are busts her parents, chair, worship chair, palette and last, unfinished painting by the artist, "the myrrh-bearing women" – all this is seen through the glass.