Passy Cemetery, opened in 1820, is located in an affluent area on the right bank of the Seine, not far from the Champs Elysees. Naturally, it immediately became the burial place of the Parisian aristocracy. Here first appeared heated room for mourning ceremonies - unprecedented luxury for the cemeteries of the time.

Passy - small (only about 2,000 graves) and a very interesting graveyard. Built as a hanging garden, it is located above the Trocadero, but for the chestnuts and the high walls of his sight. On the wall overlooking the Trocadero, is an expressive relief of military glory, which appeared after the First World War.

At the cemetery, many gravestones the work of famous sculptors - Rodin, Zadkine, Landowski. Family vault known family decorated the magnificent stained-glass windows. Many here rests the people who were once in glory: French politicians Edgar Faure, Gabriel Hanoteau, Alexandre Millerand (12th President of France), the last emperor of Vietnam, Bao Dai, artists Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, composers Claude Debussy, Jacques Ibert, founder of the automobile company Renault Marseille, aviation pioneer Henri Farman, actor Fernandel ...

The compositional center of the cemetery - the majestic tomb of Mary Bashkirtseva (1858 -1884). The artist, who died at age 25 of tuberculosis, his life kept a diary, published after her death, and translated into many languages. Bashkirtseva was the first Slavic artist, whose work has gained the Louvre, but they know it is mainly on the diary. Tsvetaeva and Bruce admired Bashkirtseva Rozanov also contrasted strikingly candid recording her "Diary of a Russian woman," Elizabeth Dyakonova. Dyakonov wrote about herself Bashkirtseva diary: "The poor of XIX century! It is reflected in the proud, weak and immoral man. " However, it later turned out that was not the original published - almost all records censored family girl. 84 Mary Bashkirtseva notebooks are kept in the National Library of France.

The tomb of Emile Jules Bastien-Lepage, declared a historical monument, recreated workshop Bashkirtseva. There are busts of her parents, a chair, a prayer stool, the palette and the last stub picture artist "myrrhbearers" - all this can be seen through the glass.