Bashkirtseff

British  

/ bəʃˈkjirtsəf /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

A Bashkirtseff would be less impossible, and a Negri with social reform in her heart is still less so.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

The journal of Marie Bashkirtseff is a great revelation of the hopes and imaginings and sufferings of a girl just entering that period of life when woman's world begins.

From A Man and a Woman by Waterloo, Stanley

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

From Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) by Bashkirtseff, Marie

Do you know that I have only just now found the time, during my long days and nights in bed with influenza and bronchitis, to read Marie Bashkirtseff?

From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot

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

From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement