The Yegoshikhinsky necropolis is the oldest cemetery located in the city limits of the city of Perm. It was founded in the second half of the 18th century and is rightfully considered a historical monument, as it is the same age as the regional center. A place where people have found their eternal rest can tell not only how the city developed, but also tell a lot about the inhabitants themselves, their lifestyle, traditions. Like many ancient cemeteries, the Yegoshikhinsky necropolis has a huge number of all kinds of legends and mysteries. But the so-called grave of the “cursed daughter” is considered to be the most mystical, myths and terrible stories about which live to this day.
Where is the burial place
If you decide to visit this place, saturated with mysticism, but do not know where the grave of the damned daughter is located, then the first thing you need to come to Perm. In the city limits is the old Yegoshikhinsky cemetery, in the territory of which stands the Assumption Church. Not far from the far right corner of the church fence there is a tombstone that has a rather strange and very frightening appearance: an iron Spanish mask with empty eye sockets and a terrible grin located inside the ring, which forms a snake devouring itself from the tail. On the tombstone there is also an inscription indicating a person who was buried under a stove with a mask: “Perm police officer Devellius, daughter Taisiya, 6 years old and 11 months old, died in January 1807”.
Most of the locals, who remember what the grave of the damned daughter looked like in the middle of the 20th century in Perm, say that next to her was another tombstone with the inscription: "Here lies the husband and wife, brother and sister, and father and daughter." It is these lines that have generated many stories and rumors. Today, there are several legends about the Perm grave of the cursed daughter.
First legend
The terrible story of the grave of the cursed daughter in Perm began when there was a young lady who had a son. When he grew up, they committed a terrible sin, after which the kindred blood mixed. Unable to stand shame, the man packed up his things and left his home, rushing to the Perm province, where he lived for many years. The young lady herself did not leave anywhere, and after nine months she gave birth to a daughter. The birth was very difficult and therefore I had to ask for help from a neighbor who managed to save the child. However, the woman herself, who committed a sin with her son, died, and before her death she managed to tell the whole truth to her neighbor.
The girl who was giving birth did not begin to disclose the terrible secret, and decided to keep the child for herself, as she had neither her husband nor her own children. She raised the girl in love, surrounding her with care and affection, without giving a single reason to think about the fact that she is not a mother.
The Return of the Absolute Son
The son who had left for the province was able to achieve unimaginable successes and rise to the rank of head of the local police, however, he never started a family. Being a bachelor, he had to return to his native land on very important matters. Arriving, he met a beautiful girl who was brought up by a woman who lives near her home. He fell in love with her without memory. The neighbor was afraid to tell the whole truth to the policeman and did not interfere in the relationship, which ended in a wedding a year later. The girl became pregnant and gave birth to a spouse, who was her sibling and father, a girl, and died during childbirth.
Father and daughter
After the death of his beloved wife, the policeman, who returned from the province, grieved for a long time. The only consolation for him was a little daughter, for whom he did absolutely everything. When the baby was six years old, the man received the news from his mother-in-law, who asked him to appear for a serious conversation. As it turned out, the woman was near death and was ready to tell all the terrible truth that she kept for many years. Hearing words shocked the policeman, who returned home in a rage and drove his little daughter out of the house. Being out of his mind, he destroyed all her things in the furnace. The man gradually went crazy. He drank and led an immoral life until he found out that his daughter died of pneumonia.
Curse
When the girl’s body was brought into the house, the man ordered her to be buried along the path leading to the Yegoshikhinsky cemetery in Perm. The grave of the damned daughter should have been trampled by all those who enter the territory of the necropolis. Then the policeman ordered a terrible tombstone, which is a kind of seal, under which the curse that he said publicly at the funeral should always be kept.
Returning from the funeral, the man left a will in which he ordered to be buried next to his wife and to establish an equally strange monument. Then he shot himself, and his will was fulfilled.
After all these terrible events, people began to concern the grave of the damned daughter in Perm, fearing to disturb not only the soul of the deceased girl, but also become a victim of the curse that was imposed back in the 18th century.
Second legend
The story of the grave of the damned daughter in Perm is so confusing that the truth is unlikely to be established. According to another version, the police officer (policeman) had no sinful relations with his mother. After he returned to his native land, the man began an affair with a local woman who independently raised a daughter named Taisiya. However, the loving police officer did not want to connect his life with an adult woman and chose to marry her daughter.
Despite the mother-in-law's anger, the policeman lived for more than a year with the young Taisia, who gave birth to a child, and died during childbirth. A heartbroken man called a newborn girl after his mother, but the grandmother did not want to recognize her granddaughter and cursed her. In a fit of rage, the woman exclaimed: "Let the snake strangle itself with its sin!"
When Taisia was six years old, she died of pneumonia, and her grandmother ordered a terrible tombstone and made her curse eternal, burying the child on the road to the cemetery. Thus, according to one version, the grave of the damned daughter appeared in Perm.
Third story
The police officer (policeman) Alexander Devellia was a real handsome man and loved the attention of the fair half of humanity. Once his extramarital affairs ended in the fact that the young lover became pregnant. Having endured a child, she died during childbirth.
The man, being a man of honor, was not afraid to confess to his wife in everything and took the child to his family. From the first day, the stepmother hated the child and cursed him every day of his life. And when the baby died of pneumonia, an enraged stepmother ordered a terrible tombstone and buried the body in front of the entrance to the cemetery. This version of the appearance of the grave of the damned daughter in Perm is the most believable.
Egoshikhinsky cemetery: the place where mysticism lives
Among the local population, bad rumors have long been walking about the old necropolis, on which there is a strange grave with the body of little Taisiya. Almost everyone says that even in the most intense heat, the earth here never warms up and remains cold. Local residents are sure that this grief of spirits freezes her.
Among the many strange and rather creepy stories, the legend that a blessed monk who was robbed and brutally murdered is buried here. It is he who is the keeper of the cemetery peace, driving away all those who came with evil intentions. According to rumors, the Black Monk always appears from behind and puts his cold hand on the shoulder of someone he does not like.
Sometimes the White Lady also makes itself felt, which no one has ever seen, but her voice is often heard at a time when a thick fog hangs over the cemetery. Most of those who have heard the voice of the White Lady say that he is pretty sweet. Hearing him, there is an incomprehensible desire to drop everything and go to meet him. Even if you do not take into account all these incredible legends and stories, you just have to enter the Yegoshikhinsky cemetery, you can immediately feel the heavy, unpleasant energy that seems to envelop you from all sides, plunging into darkness. That's who does not care who lies in the grave of the damned daughter and who this Black Monk is - local tramps who have chosen this troubled place and have lived here for many years.