Аристократический некрополь Aristocratic necropolis

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Cemetery de Passy is quite small, located right next to the metro and the Trocadero. Despite the proximity of the colossal number of people who came to look at the Eiffel Tower, as well as the endless stream of cars and buses bringing tourists, the cemetery is quite quiet and calm, there were no people at all. It is little visited and practically unknown to tourists, although the proportion of great and famous citizens of France buried here is large. Officially, they began to bury on it from 1820, although before that there had already been a small necropolis since 1802. By 1874, the cemetery had become a real aristocratic necropolis, which was facilitated by the proximity of prestigious residential areas with numerous mansions and villas of nobles, wealthy bourgeois, high-ranking officials and the military. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that among more than 2000 graves and crypts it is almost impossible to find the burials of people even with an average income.
This is the only Parisian cemetery with heated rooms. It has one entrance, decorated with a portico. Here is the grave of the widow of the Swiss businessman Isaac Singer, Isabelle Boye, which is decorated with a bust of this woman, whose face served as a model for the New York Statue of Liberty. Visitors can lay flowers on the graves of world celebrities: actor Fernandel, writers Octave Mirbeau and Jacques Ibert, composer Claude Debussy, historian and art historian Germain Bazin, aviation pioneer Henri Farman, artists Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, poet Maurice Rostand, Princess Natalia Brassova and her the husband of Count Georges Brassov, the legend of French aviation, test pilot Konstantin Rozanov, who mastered 201 types of aircraft and helicopters, the outstanding volcanologist Garun Taziev, the artist Maria Bashkirtseva, and others.