Marie Bashkirtseff, born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, was a Russian émigré artist who was born into a Russian noble family on their estate near the city of Poltava. She lived and worked in Paris, and died at the age of 25.
Bashkirtseff, 1878
Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, where Maria was christened
Maria Bashkirtseva in a folk costume
The house of Bashkirtseffs in Gavrontsi
Poltava is a city located on the Vorskla River in Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast as well as Poltava Raion within the oblast. It also hosts the administration of Poltava urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Poltava has a population of 279,593.
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