Memorial Day Mary Bashkirtseva

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Fans of Mary Bashkirtseva honor her memory at the cemetery in Paris
16:36 RIA Novosti


PARIS, October 31 - RIA Novosti, Vladimir Dobrovolsky. Admirers of Russian artist Maria Bashkirtseva paid tribute to her memory in Paris, where 125 years ago took the life of 25-year-old girl, RIA News.

Bashkirtseva died from severe illness, leaving the famous diary and having time to create about 150 paintings, many drawings and several sculptures. She became the first Russian artist whose work has acquired the Louvre in Paris.

Pay tribute artist near the Orthodox chapel, built over her grave at the cemetery of Passy, met about 30 people: Russians, Ukrainians, representatives of Russia's emigration and admirers of Russian culture.

The service was celebrated cleric Tryohsvjatitelskaja temple Korsun diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The symbol of Franco-Russian Alliance

Maria was born in the Poltava November 12, 1858, and in France was at the age of 12 years. I Bashkirtseva was the only passion - painting. For three and a half years she was a seven-year course of the Paris Academy of Rodolphe Julian, was exhibited at the Salon of the capital. Her work is admired by Jules Bastien-Lepage, Vasily Surikov, Isaac Levitan.

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Bashkirtseva famous diary, where she describes her experiences and travels and gives an assessment of the French and Spanish artists, was published shortly after her death. In the Russian translation of the publication was accompanied by articles of fans Bashkirtseva: British Prime Minister William Gladstone and the French poet Francois Cope.

"She - the legend. Any little bit enlightened Frenchman knows the name of Marie Bashkirtseff - Musya Bashkirtseva. She is more known than Bunin, strangely enough. Her connection with the French elite, artists, writers ... It is a living symbol of what Russia at that time - is part of Europe ", - told RIA Novosti famous Slavic and art collector Rene Guerra.

Bashkirtseva became part of Western culture, while remaining Slavic soul.

"She - a symbol of incorruptibility of the Franco-Russian alliance. Then was the alliance, the dialogue of cultures, truly, without any politics, "- says Guerra.

Fate heritage

Heritage Bashkirtseva scattered around the world. About forty of her works belong to museum collections in Russia, more than twenty - France, her works are in museum collections in Ukraine, Greece, USA, Netherlands, Serbia and Czech Republic.

Fund Revival memory of Mary Bashkirtseva "creates a museum in her homeland - in Dikanka Poltava region, but the track is very difficult to collect. Valuable artifacts are stored in the chapel at the cemetery Passy, but the administration of the cemetery in the building will not allow anyone, because it does not address the issue with the owner of the chapel.

"Land was purchased at the grave of his mother Bashkirtseva and paid for 50 years. When it came time to pay, no money, and the heirs sold the land and the chapel American. An American died, leaving no heirs, and the current pretender to the French heritage - a great-nephew Philip Bashkirtseva Kare - can not prove their rights, because his grandmother is not written in metric ", - told RIA Novosti the head of the Fund's Tatyana Shvets.

In the chapel is an unfinished painting Bashkirtseva "holy women", armchair, chair, sculpture, palette, which worked with Maria.

"Now, when we create a museum, it is very difficult to find some things that belonged to Mary. And then this comes together and you can not save it, because everything is in the chapel of crude ", - said Shvets.

"I'm afraid that when we are in a few years will achieve permission for the restoration and conservation of these things will be too late - we touch and everything will fall apart" - feared head of the Fund.