The cemetery is located in the Rossa (Rasų seniūnija) district between Rossa (Rasų gatve) and Listopadowa (Sukilėlių gatve) Streets, which separates the old part (so-called Old Rossa) and the new part (so-called New Rossa). Old Rossa, which stretches between Rossa and Listopadų Streets, is located on a hilly area between the so-called Hill of the Writers and the bank of the so-called Karpiška. In this part, there were catacombs, there is a cemetery chapel, numerous monuments to outstanding personalities and the most artistically interesting works have been preserved. It is preceded by a small military cemetery, separated from its space. It is a special place, where the heart of Marsh. Jozef Pilsudski was laid to rest there, surrounded by Polish soldiers killed in the battle for Vilnius. Nowa Rossa is located on the other side of Listopadowa Street. This part has taken shape since at least the beginning of the 20th century, in a disorderly manner. However, it has found an important place - the adjacent graves of Polish and Lithuanian soldiers. Those who died in the battle for Vilnius, standing on two different sides, are buried there. Above the cemetery of Polish soldiers is a column erected in 1930 with an inscription in Polish only: "Vilnius - to its defenders". All three parts form one necropolis - the Vilnius Rossa. The oldest monument in the Vilnius Rossa is a plaque dating from around 1630 from the Vilnius St. Casimir's Church, secondarily placed in the cemetery in the 1860s. In addition, the cemetery contains 18th century tombstones moved from the Evangelical cemetery after its liquidation in the 2nd half of the 20th century. The oldest objects, which were probably connected to the cemetery from the beginning, are the plaques dating from 1813 and 1816 - those of Katarzyna Gąsecka and Augustyn Roszkowski - originally probably located in the catacombs. Dating from around 1820, there is a characteristic tombstone monument in the shape of an urn on a column surrounded by a circular brick fence. This monument, probably dating back to Italian models, was fatally reconstructed in the 2nd half of the 20th century. The boulder on the grave of the Bécu family may be considered the oldest surviving monument on Ross. We do not know when exactly it was built; four people are buried under it: Catherine (d. 1806) and August Bécu (d. 1824), and Aleksandra and Jan Mianowski (both died in 1832). The most famous person buried at Rossa is therefore August Bécu, stepfather of Juliusz Słowacki. His unusual death from ball lightning, which struck him while he was taking a nap in his own bed, has gone down in the annals of history and was recalled in Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady (Forefathers' Eve). This monument is therefore an example of the Romantic fashion that boulder-stele makers would later follow. A form that is not specific to the Vilnius cemetery, but by frequency certainly characteristic of the local environment. It is interesting to note that in its composition the focus was not on decoration, but primarily on the form of the inscription. Monuments, which we can describe as chapel-pillars, referring to folk traditions, are also part of the romantic trend. In total, tens of thousands of people were buried on Ross. Most were commemorated by wooden crosses, simple slabs or concrete bands. They are often anonymous, but on almost 9,000 graves names and surnames have been preserved, sometimes other information about the deceased. These traces are slowly fading into oblivion, the inscriptions fading away.