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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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Marie Bashkirtseff, in the terrible self-revealing journals which she wrote, describes a visit that she paid to some one who had expressed an interest in her and a desire to see her.

From From a College Window by Benson, Arthur Christopher

In 1885 the works of Marie Bashkirtseff were exhibited.

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

It was odd—Saxham supposed it the outcome of that Convent breeding—that she should speak of God as simply, to quote Gladstone's criticism on the Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff, as though He were her grandfather.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

A friendship had grown up between the families Bashkirtseff and Bastien-Lepage.

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

Why, if so disposed, Marie Bashkirtseff might have read old French romances at ten, and to play Chopin at an earlier age was not surprising in the opportunitied, so-called "aristocratic" infant.

From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard

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