The cemetery of San Pietro in Vincoli, which has become a historical site of Torino (Turin), still creates intrigue for the events that took place there. One of these stories tells of the sad fate of a young woman with a veiled face, for whom a marble funeral monument was sculpted in Firenze (Florence) in 1794 by Spiazzi.
The sculpture was made for the tomb of the Russian princess Barbara "Varvara" Beloselkij, who died in 1792 at the age of 28. Her husband dictated an epigraph for her "Oh, feeling! Sweet life of the soul. What heart have you never hit? Who is the unfortunate mortal whom you have never offered the sweet pleasure to shed tears, and who is the cruel soul that, in front of this monument so simple and compassionate, do not gather with melancholy and do not generously condemn the faults of the groom who raised it?" Legend has it that the ghost still roams through the cemetery, while the restored statue is now on display in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Torino (Gallery of Modern Art in Turin).
