Who is Maria Bashkirtseva? This name means nothing to many, some have heard about the early deceased Russian artist who lived in Paris, some have read her “Diary”, written in French, repeatedly published in Russia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries and recently republished again in Russian translation. The life of Maria Bashkirtseva is diligently idealized by publishers and family, a myth has been created, which we are not going to destroy at all, but it seems the time has already come when we can talk about her real life, the life of a Russian mademoiselle, most of which she lived abroad, to try decipher, as far as possible, her diary, reflect on its pages, both printed and hidden, see what is hidden in what is printed, talk about the life of that time and return names once known, but now forgotten even in France, and here completely unknown. Magazine version.