12 Facts About Marie Bashkirtseff

Marie Bashkirtseff lived and worked in Paris, and died at the age of 25.

Marie Bashkirtseff's father was a local marshal of nobility, Konstantin Pavlovich Bashkirtsev.

Marie Bashkirtseff then determined to become an artist, and she studied painting in France at the Robert-Fleury studio and at the.

Fellow students at the Academie included Anna Bilinska and especially Louise Breslau, whom Marie Bashkirtseff viewed as her only real rival.

Marie Bashkirtseff would go on to produce a remarkable, if fairly conventional, body of work in her short lifetime, exhibiting at the Paris Salon as early as 1880 and every year thereafter until her death.

Marie Bashkirtseff died in Paris in 1884, and she is buried in Cimetiere de Passy, Paris.

Marie Bashkirtseff's monument is a full-sized artist's studio that has been declared a historic monument by the government of France.

From approximately the age of 13, Marie Bashkirtseff kept a journal, and it is probably for this that she is most famous today.

Marie Bashkirtseff was multilingual and despite her self-involvement, was a keen observer with an acute ear for hypocrisy, so that her journal offers a near-novelistic account of the late nineteenth century European bourgeoisie.

Marie Bashkirtseff's journal was first published in 1887, and was only the second diary by a woman published in France to that date.

Marie Bashkirtseff's letters, consisting of her correspondence with the writer Guy de Maupassant were first published in 1891.

Until recently the accepted date of Marie Bashkirtseff's birth was 11 November [23 November New Style], 1860.