According to historians, ancient cemeteries serve not only as burial sites but also as important sources of information about the past of the region where they are located. After the October Revolution of 1917, many necropolises were destroyed; however, Yegoshikha Cemetery in old Perm was preserved, retaining many significant burials.

Founded in the 18th century, Yegoshikha Cemetery became the final resting place for many notable individuals from various eras. In 1843, the icon painter Pyotr Prokofyevich Vereshchagin, founder of the famous dynasty of artists, was buried here. Over the next 75 years until the revolution, graves of such outstanding figures appeared as the hero of the Borodino battle, Major Nikolai Afanasevich Teplov, who died from wounds in 1813, talented Perm architect of Lithuanian-Polish descent Rudolf Iosifovich Karvovsky (1896), one of the first Russian women doctors Yevgenia Pavlovna Serebrennikova (1897), local historian and writer Alexander Alexeyevich Dmitriev (1902), archpriest Vasily Alexeyevich Burdin (1911), physician and local historian Pavel Nikolayevich Serebrennikov (1917), and many others.

With the advent of Soviet power, the cemetery became a site for executions and burials of victims. In the spring of 1919, soldiers of Admiral Kolchak's army discovered the bodies of Countess Anastasia Vasilyevna Gendrikova and Yekaterina Adolfovna Schneider, killed for their loyalty to the royal family. Their remains were buried at Yegoshikha Cemetery, and a cross now marks their burial site.

Today, the cemetery continues to function. After many years of neglect, two ancient churches built in 1832 and 1905 have been reopened for worshippers. The first was the Church of All Saints, known as the 'New Cemetery Church' (architect Sviayzev), followed by the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built according to the design of architect Ozhyegov.