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Bashkirtseff

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Bashkirtseff, Bashkirtsev [bəʃˈkjirtsəf]
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(Biographies / Bashkirtseff, Marie (1858-1884) F, Russian, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter, WRITING: diarist) Marie, original name Marya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva. 1858-84, Russian painter and diarist who wrote in French, noted esp for her


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This ambitious book starts in the 1870s with the exuberant 17-year-old Marie Bashkirtseff pouring out her heart to her diary and ends in 1945 with 15-year-old Anne Frank's death in Bergen-Belsen.
Teenage begins in 1875, in Nice, when the 17-year-old Russian émigré Marie Bashkirtseff starts keeping a diary that would, 12 years later (three years after her death from tuberculosis), become the first best-selling chronicle of teen angst.
In Konz's account, Bashkirtseff is both a traditional artist, whose self-portraits fit easily with other 19th- century Salon art, and a radical associated with the suffrage movement.
 
 
 
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