Bashkirtseff

/ bəʃˈkjirtsəf /

noun

1. BashkirtseffMarie18581884FRussianARTS AND CRAFTS: painterWRITING: diarist Marie , original name Marya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva . 1858–84, Russian painter and diarist who wrote in French, noted esp for her Journal (1887)

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Marie Bashkirtseff was a child of precocious intelligence, ardent will, extreme intensity of life.

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But in her great passion—her ambition, Marie Bashkirtseff was beautifully consistent.

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It reconciles to the barbarous, even where Tolstoi and Marie Bashkirtseff may have failed.

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At one time Mlle. Bashkirtseff had suffered with her eyes, and, getting better of that, she had an attack of deafness.

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It is probable that the "Meeting" received no medal because it was suspected that Mlle. Bashkirtseff had been aided in her work.

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