Mademoiselle Maria Bashkirtseva died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five, having lived a short but very bright life. She was an unusually gifted girl: she sang wonderfully, spoke several European languages fluently, was seriously engaged in painting, was friends with prominent people of her era - Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant. Bashkirtseva's paintings are exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, as well as in the galleries of Amsterdam, Paris and Nice.From the age of ten, Musya, as her relatives called Bashkirtseva, lived in Europe, mainly in Paris. The girl kept diary entries in French from the age of twelve, and they are a unique psychological document of the formation of a person, and also illustrate the bright literary talent of the author. In the diary, the reader is presented with a very talented, romantic, intelligent, strong, but at the same time vain and self-willed girl.Bashkirtseva's diary was published posthumously, translated into many European languages, it was Maria Bashkirtseva who dedicated her first poetry collection Marina Tsvetaeva , and Guy de Maupassant said this about Mary: “It was the only rose in my life ...”