A mid-nineteenth century text by the priest and botanist Giuseppe Francesco Baruffi, mentions the grave of the Swedish actress Emilie Högqvist in the Evangelical section of the Turin cemetery. Carlotta Weiss, a Lady in waiting originally from Stockholm, purchased the plot on 18 February 1847.  One of the most famous international actresses of the nineteenth century is buried there: Emilie Högqvist – who for a time had a sentimental liaison with Crown Prince Oscar of Sweden, and gave him two children.

Emilie Högqvist studied choreography as a child and then went to Paris to perfect her skills, adding them to her beauty, playing many roles and concluding her career as Avventurina, the female vaudeville star in Les trois polka.

She had a very tumultuous  love life and fragile health: in 1836 she developed pulmonary tuberculosis, after which she travelled to Southern Europe, especially to Italy, because of the peninsula’s warmer climate.

She died in Turin on 18 December 1846 at the Hôtel d'Europe in the town centre.

Her grave bears a cross in Perrero white marble, a seat in Frabosa white marble; a weeping willow and a rose were planted there.