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Gabriel

Gabriel Géry

Two men called Géry appear in the diary, and Marie tells them apart only by "le père" and "le fils". She states the relation herself on 20 July 1879: "Monsieur Géry (père, bien entendu, le fils est attaché à l'Ambassade à Bruxelles)" (085.0572). This page describes both, but since 2026-10-22 the father has his own entry, [CHARLES_GERY](CHARLES_GERY.md), and paragraphs about him alone are tagged there.

Gabrielli

- Type: people - mentioned

Gadtchina (Gatchina)

Gatchina (French: Gatchina, Marie's spelling: Gadtchina) is a town about 45 km south of St. Petersburg, famous for its imperial palace. After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, his successor Alexander III chose the Gatchina Palace as his primary residence, making it the de facto seat of Russian imperial power during the later years of Marie's diary.

Gaedes

[Research needed]

Gagarine

The Gagarine family (also spelled Gagarin) was part of the Russian aristocratic circle in Nice during the 1870s. With 20 mentions in Marie Bashkirtseff's diary, they were regular participants in the social life of the Russian expatriate community.

Gaillardet

- Type: people - mentioned

Gaite Theater

Galerie de femmes célèbres (Sainte-Beuve)

Marie's *Les femmes célèbres* by Sainte-Beuve is most probably the *Galerie de femmes célèbres, tirée des Causeries du lundi* (Paris, Garnier frères; an illustrated volume of Sainte-Beuve's portraits of women, reissued several times from the end of the 1850s), a collection of essays picked from the weekly *Causeries du lundi* of Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869). The contents of the c. 1862 edition (checked on the Internet Archive scan) are: Marguerite de Navarre, Marie Stuart, Madame de Motteville, la Grande Mademoiselle, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, Madame (duchesse d'Orléans), Madame de Sévigné, Madame de Maintenon, Madame de Caylus, la duchesse de Bourgogne, la duchesse du Maine, Madame de Lambert, Madame Necker, Madame Geoffrin, Marie-Antoinette, Goethe et Bettina, **Madame Récamier**, Madame Émile de Girardin, Madame de Tracy, Eugénie de Guérin and la duchesse d'Angoulême.

Galerie Georges Petit

Marie's «chez Petit» is the art gallery of Georges Petit (1856–1920), the Paris dealer who ran the Galerie Georges Petit, a main rival of Durand-Ruel and the host of the annual *Expositions internationales de peinture* from 1882; the gallery was at 8 rue de Sèze (en.wikipedia «Georges Petit»; Metropolitan Museum, Modern Art Index Project, «Galerie Georges Petit», which dates the move from rue Godot de Mauroy to rue de Sèze to 1890). The Mon Journal t.16 index lists «Petit (Galerie de peintures) : 173». (Renamed from PETIT and moved to places/buildings in the stub-pass apply, 2026-10-22.)

Galignani

Galignani's Messenger - English-language newspaper published in Paris for British expatriates and tourists.

Galloni d Istria

[Research needed]

Galula

A young Niçois man, aspiring notary. Following Kernberger (2013, glossary: "Fiouloulou: nickname for Galula"; Galula = Dechiar Galula, notary's clerk in Nice and Audiffret's friend), this project identifies him as **Galula** — see [Galula](GALULA.md). Marie refers to him by the nickname "Fiouloulou" (sometimes spelled "Fioulouiou"). He is a persistent but unwanted suitor who becomes Audiffret's loyal follower.

Galula Dechiar

Galuta

Galve

An old man in Nice society who participates in shooting matches and associates with Lambertye's group.

Galzowsky

Gancia

Gans

Garach

Dressmaker or fashion house, used as inferior comparison to Worth.

Gare

gare de Lyon

- Type: places - buildings

Gare du Nord

The railway station from which Turgenev's coffin was sent to Russia on 1 October 1883: «Notre grand écrivain Tourguenieff mort il y a quinze jours est expédié aujourd'hui en Russie. Grande cérémonie d'adieux à la gare. Discours de M. Renan, de M. About et de Virouboff un Russe qui a parlé français très bien et a ému plus que les autres» (101.0470). A commemorative service was held at the Gare du Nord, with Renan and About speaking beside the train (Henry James, «Ivan Turgenieff», 1903, via the Wikipedia article «Ivan Turgenev», which gives his death at Bougival on 3 September 1883). Marie's «il y a quinze jours» is her own count.

gare Montparnasse

- Type: places - buildings

gare Saint-Lazare

- Type: places - buildings

Garnier

- Type: people - mentioned

Gaslina

Gaslina, a painter (Mon Journal t.1 index «Gaslina, peintre, 235»; t.5 «Gaslina (M.), peintre, 314»), who painted Marie's portrait and, in her view, ruined it.

Gaston

Gaston de Larderel

Gaston de Larderel

- Type: people - mentioned

Gaston Thomson («M. Thompson»)

«M. Thompson», with whom Paul de Cassagnac fought a duel on 2 March 1878, the day after his speech in the Chamber: «il s'est battu aujourd'hui à trois heures avec M. Thompson. M. Thompson a été blessé» (078.0339). He is Gaston Thomson (1848–1932), republican deputy for Constantine (Algeria) from 1877, later minister of the Navy (en.wikipedia «Gaston Thomson»). French Wikipedia records that Cassagnac's polemics in the Chamber after his re-election in 1877 «entraînent deux duels dont il sort vainqueur, avec Gaston Thomson et Louis Andrieux» (fr.wikipedia «Paul de Cassagnac (1842-1904)»), and a Figaro report found on Gallica describes the sword duel at Le Vésinet in which «M. Thomson» was slightly wounded in the neck, after the sitting of 1 March (0.85). Marie spells the name «Thompson».

Gatowsky

A family (M., Mme and Mlle Gatowsky) in Naples in the spring of 1877, relatives of the prince Gryf-Jaxa-Bikowsky ([GRYF_JAXA_BIKOWSKY](GRYF_JAXA_BIKOWSKY.md)). The *Mon Journal* t.10 index has «Gatowsky (M.), 37, 40, 42, 138, 140», «Gatowsky (Mme), 37, 40, 42, 120, 138», «Gatowsky (Mlle), 37, 40, 42, 120, 138».

Gaugiran

A woman whose appearance Marie finds unpleasant. Used as reference point in Marie's nightmare about Hamilton's wife.

Gautier

Gavini Family (Denis, Adeline, Antoine)

The [Gavini family](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famille_Gavini) were a prominent Corsican political dynasty who became Marie Bashkirtseff's most important and enduring social allies in Paris. [Denis Gavini](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Gavini) (born in Bastia on 11 October 1819 according to fr.wikipedia, 8 October 1820 at Campile according to the Assemblée nationale's Sycomore database; died in Paris on 1 March 1916, or 2 March per Sycomore), former prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes under the Second Empire and Bonapartist deputy for Corsica, and his wife Adeline (nee d'Agen, daughter of Count Raymond d'Agen), provided Marie with social guidance, political connections, opera tickets, matchmaking, and the legitimacy of an established French family. Their nephew [Antoine Gavini](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Gavini) (24 July 1856, Bastia -- 8 March 1926, Paris), son of Denis's brother [Sampiero Gavini](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampiero_Gavini), was a young lawyer whom Adeline treated as a surrogate son and positioned as Marie's escort. The family is tagged in 430 diary entries across 28 carnets (075, 080--106), making them among the most frequently mentioned figures in the entire diary.

Gavronzi

Gavronzi was a countryside estate in the Poltava region of Ukraine where a dramatic custody confrontation occurred between Marie's maternal and paternal family members. The estate featured a yellow pavilion that became the setting for this pivotal family incident.

Gayarre

Julián Gayarre (1844–1890), the Spanish (Navarrese) tenor, one of the great lyric tenors of the 1870s–80s (en.wikipedia «Julián Gayarre»). Marie writes «Gayarre»/«Gayarré». The Mon Journal t.14 index lists «Gayarre, acteur: 293» and t.16 «Gayarre (Edouard), chanteur», which the RSR note on 104.0157 corrects.

Gazette des Tribunaux

- Type: people - mentioned

Gedanoff

Stub entry — needs research.

General Albedinsky

General Bihovetz

A Polish general in the Bashkirtseffs' Nice circle. The Mon Journal t.10 index has «Bihovetz (Général Polonais), 14, 125, 173, 177, 188, 199-200, 203, 205, 207, 214, 220, 237». Not further identified; the spelling is Marie's (the Mon Journal indexes also print «Bihovtez»). Marie nicknames him «Bibi» (t.6 and t.8 indexes list «Bihovetz, général [Bibi]»; confirmed in the diary: «notre scie à Nice avec Bihovetz, dit le général Bibi», 086.0227, 8 Sept 1879). Note that the Mon Journal t.6 index gives the same nickname to Olga Sapogenikoff, and in 047.0288 «Bibi» is Marie herself, so a bare «Bibi» must be read in context (062.0131, 062.0165 are him).

General Bihovetz

General Fortune Teller

- Type: people - mentioned

General Gaston de Galliffet

Gaston Alexandre Auguste, marquis de Galliffet (1830-1909), French cavalry general: wounded in Mexico, leader of the cavalry charges at Floing (Sedan, 1870), notorious for the summary executions in the repression of the Paris Commune in 1871, later minister of war (1899-1900) (Wikipedia, «Gaston de Galliffet»).

General Jeanningros

Pierre Jean Joseph Jeanningros (21 November 1816, Besançon – 30 April 1902) was a French general celebrated for his command of the French Foreign Legion during the Mexican Intervention (1863–1864). He was promoted to Général de brigade in 1865 and Général de division in 1873. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1877. He was known for personal courage — wounded six times in combat — and was nicknamed "le Bayard des braves" (the Bayard of the brave). By 1880, he was in his mid-sixties, retired from active command, and appearing in Parisian social circles.

General Loris Melikoff

- Type: people - mentioned

General Nicolai

- Type: people - mentioned

Général Ogareff

A Russian general «très aimé de l'Empereur», father of Mme Martinoff, the prefect's wife whom Marie visits at Poltava on 15 September 1876 (066/1876-09-15, 066.0242: «Fille du général Ogareff, très aimé de l'Empereur, elle s'est encanaillée avec le valet de chambre du susdit empereur au point qu'il fallut la marier»). Mon Journal t.9 index: «Ogareff (général) : 76». Nothing else is known from the diary. He is not the poet Nikolay Ogarev of 1874 (see [OGAREV](../writers/OGAREV.md)); the two share only the spelling.

General Rostovzeff

«Le général Rostovzeff, chef de la cour du grand-duc Nicolas», a relative of the Sapogenikoffs, whom Marie, Maman and ma tante visit at Peterhof on 9 August 1876 with Nina Sapogenikoff; he and his wife had known Maman and ma tante «il y a quatre ans à Nice» (064.0476); Marie names him again among «les personnes du grand monde qu'a connues maman il y a huit ans» (064.0499). Mon Journal t.8 index: «Rostovzeff (général) : 355, 358».

General Skobeleff (Mikhail Skobelev)

Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev (1843–1882), Russian general, hero of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 and of the Central Asian campaigns, who called openly for a Franco-Russian alliance against Germany in Paris in February 1882 and died suddenly in Moscow on 7 July 1882 (footnote at 097.0389; en.wikipedia «Mikhail Skobelev»).

General Wolf

A Russian general living in Nice in 1876-1877, an intimate friend of thirty years of M. Nicolas Anitchkoff (068.0754). Kernberger (2013, glossary) lists him simply as "Wolf: General". Like Anitchkoff he is named Nicolas and celebrates his name day on St Nicholas's day, 6 December Old Style = 18 December New Style (068.0227-0131).

Genes

Geneva

Geneva (French: Genève) is a Swiss city that served as a crucial refuge for the Bashkirtseff family during the Franco-Prussian War (1870) and remained a place Marie appreciated for short visits throughout her life.

Geneve

Genoa (Gènes)

Major Italian port city, destination for a planned trip that was abandoned.

Gentil Bernard

Not a person in Marie's life: *Gentil-Bernard ou L'Art d'aimer*, a vaudeville by Dumanoir and Clairville (Variétés, 1846), named after the court poet Pierre-Joseph Bernard, «Gentil-Bernard» (1708–1775) (Wikipedia «Dumanoir», «Clairville», «Pierre-Joseph Bernard», as cited in the footnote on the paragraph). Marie sees it on 1874-10-23 (024.0392) at the Nice theatre: «On donne "Gentil Bernard ou l'art d'aimer", une pièce dont j'entendis fort peu de choses, nous parlions tout le temps.» In the same paragraph Saëtone is in the Durand box with M. de Cessole. Belongs among the theatre works.

George Sand

George Sand (1804-1876) was the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, one of the most prolific and celebrated French novelists of the 19th century. Famous for her romantic novels (*Indiana*, *Lélia*, *Consuelo*, *La Mare au diable*), her male pseudonym, her habit of wearing men's clothing, her love affairs (with Alfred de Musset, Frédéric Chopin, and others), and her political activism, Sand embodied the possibility of a woman living an independent intellectual and creative life.

Georges Bertrand

Georges Bertrand, a French painter (Mon Journal t.14 index «Bertrand (Georges): 275», t.15 «Bertrand (Georges), peintre: 256»), probably Georges-Jules Bertrand (1849–1929) (VIAF), though the sources found do not match the paintings below to him.

Georges Sand

Georges Stepanovitch Babanine

Georges Babanine was one of the most destructive figures in Marie Bashkirtseff's life. An alcoholic, con man, forger, and domestic abuser, he appears in approximately 134 diary entries across carnets 000--094 (1873--1882). Marie's characterizations of him range from savage epithets -- "cette canaille," "ce monstre," "cet être ignoble" -- to occasional moments of pity for a man who "had everything to be one of the happy ones of this world" yet "wrecked his life for trifles" (094.1882-03-12).

Georgette

*Georgette* is an oil on canvas of **1881**, 56 × 47 cm (84 × 75 cm framed), owned by the French State through the **Centre national des arts plastiques** (FNAC 864) and deposited at the **Musée du château de Nérac** (Lot-et-Garonne) under D.885.1.1. The Joconde notice titles it *Georgette ; ou autoportait* [*sic*]: a young woman in bust length, turned three-quarters to the viewer against a dark ground, in a pale-blue jacket, wearing a large straw hat trimmed with six pink roses and tied under the chin with a broad white bow.

Gerbel

[Research needed]

Gerhardt von Doenhoff

Gericault

[Research needed]

Gericke

Young man whom Marie meets at Spa in July 1874 (carnets 021-023). In 021/1874-07-11 he is "le plus gentil d'ici", calls her *Douchenka* (Russian: darling), and she banters with him ("je l'appelle *Imbécile*"). In 034.0358 (1875-06-17) Marie calls him "cet horrible Hollandais", so she took him for Dutch. He is apparently not the "Hollandais" of 021/1874-07-11, who is named there separately from Gericke ("Alors vient le Hollandais").

German

This tag marks paragraphs containing German-language text within the diary. With approximately 90 tagged paragraphs, German is one of the less frequently used foreign languages in Marie Bashkirtseff's diary -- far behind French (primary), English, and Italian -- but its presence is culturally significant. German appears in contexts spanning spa terminology (*Kursaal*, *Kurhaus*), snippets of conversation, exclamations overheard on trains, quotations from German speakers, and Marie's own halting attempts at the language. Unlike Italian or English, which Marie wielded with confidence and flair, German remained a language she studied with intermittent enthusiasm but never mastered, and one freighted with the political tensions of post-1870 Europe.

Gers

The département of the Gers in Gascony (chief town Auch), Paul de Cassagnac's political fief: he sat for it in the Chamber (for Condom, then from 1881 for Mirande; Assemblée nationale, Sycomore «Granier de Cassagnac»), and his family's house at Couloumé is there ([CASSAGNAC](../../people/recurring/CASSAGNAC.md)).

Gettatura

- Type: people - mentioned

Gil Blas

*Gil Blas*, the Paris daily founded in 1879 by Auguste Dumont, known for society gossip, light fiction and scandal. It printed a thinly veiled article about Berthe in April 1881 (091.0470), society paragraphs about the family's costume ball in 1883 (098.0199, 098.0271, 098.0276), and in December 1883 a paragraph about «une jeune fille étrangère qui s'occupe exclusivement de peinture» in Marie's quarter (102.0550).

Ginew Family

A family (possibly English or Russian) encountered at the Howard household in Nice, June 12, 1873. Their daughter is described as "très gentille" with a "manière de donner la main très franche" (very friendly handshake). Marie notes she apparently spoke only English.

Giorgio, "Soroka" of Rome

The young man who followed Marie and Dina in Rome in early 1876 and whom she nicknames "le Soroka de Rome", after Soroka of Nice ([#Emile_d_audiffret](../recurring/EMILE_D_AUDIFFRET.md)); she learns he is "un certain Giorgio, un horticulteur je crois".

Giovanelli

The bridegroom at the Nice wedding of «Mlle Magarnoff, la sœur du fiddler» on Sunday 1874-05-10 (019.0170): «Tout a été tellement médiocre pour ne pas dire laid qu'il n'y a rien à dire, le bridegroom, Giovanelli, est une horreur... On m'a encore forcée d'aller chez eux après la cérémonie.» Marie attends in travelling dress, forced by her family. The Mon Journal t.3 index has «Giovanelli (M.), 186». No first name or other detail was found; see the RSR note on the paragraph for the Magarnoff family.

Girardin

Giroflé-Girofla

*Giroflé-Girofla* is an opéra bouffe in three acts with music by Charles Lecocq and a libretto by Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier. It was first given at the Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes, Brussels, on 21 March 1874, and in Paris at the Théâtre de la Renaissance on 11 November 1874 (Wikipedia, "Giroflé-Girofla"; IMSLP). Set in 13th-century Spain, it tells of twin brides, one of whom is abducted by pirates; the other twin must pose as both until the first is rescued. Lecocq wrote it as a deliberately far-fetched follow-up to *La Fille de Madame Angot* (Wikipedia).

Gisella

Giselle van Baeker

Giselle (in Naples «la Gisella») van Baeker, an Austrian girl, the fiancée and from August 1877 the wife of the Neapolitan count Francesco («Franz») de [Balzorano](./BALZORANO.md). Marie never meets her, but their long romance, the talk of Naples in March 1877, becomes her model of a great love. Names: Mon Journal t.10 index «Baeker (Giselle von)»; t.11 index «Balsorano (Giselle comtesse) : 6, 13, 219». Kernberger (2013, glossary): «Van Baeker, Giselle: Austrian girl in love with Count de Balzorano».

Giselle Van Baeker

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Italian general and patriot, the leading military figure of the Risorgimento: the defence of the Roman Republic (1849), the Expedition of the Thousand (1860) that brought Sicily and Naples into the Kingdom of Italy, and the later campaigns for Rome. Born in Nice (then Nizza, part of the Kingdom of Sardinia) in 1807. (Encyclopaedia Britannica; Wikipedia, "Giuseppe Garibaldi".)

Givry

[Research needed]

Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), Liberal prime minister of the United Kingdom (1868–74, and later). Marie names him in a joke about an English governess whom she makes «reine of Scotland» and draws «dans des conspirations avec Gladstone, Dukes of Cambridge and Argyll and John Bull» (012.0198, 13 Nov 1873; t.2 index «Gladstone, 173»), and in 1879 she reads «le compte rendu d'un dîner chez Emile de Girardin en l'honneur de M. Gladstone» (086.0409).

Glaton

Jeweler or goldsmith in Nice.

Gloriae Cupiditas

Latin phrase meaning "Desire for Glory" that Marie uses as the title for what she considers the 82nd book of her diary. This marks the beginning of a new phase in her writing, coinciding with her return from the emotionally tumultuous Soden spa period in August 1878.

Goblet

[Research needed]

God

Marie talks to God throughout the diary, from the childhood bedtime prayer of the preface to the last carnet. This entry is tagged where she **addresses God directly** (prayers, pleas, vows, thanks, reproaches) and where she **reflects at length on God and her faith**; the countless interjections («mon Dieu !», «Dieu sait», «Dieu merci») are not tagged (owner ruling 2026-10-23). Her prayers to the Virgin and to Christ are tagged only where they sit inside a prayer to God; see also [#Virgin_Mary](VIRGIN_MARY.md), [#Jesus](JESUS.md), [#Providence](../mentioned/PROVIDENCE.md) and the theme [#Religion](../../culture/themes/RELIGION.md).

God Justice

Godard

A young man in Marie's Nice social circle during summer 1875. Initially shy and reserved, Marie notes he is "not as stupid as he looks" as he warms up during parlor games (July 13, 1875).

Goethe

- Type: people - mentioned

Goldsmid

[Research needed]

Golezowsky

- Type: people - mentioned

Golgotha (Munkácsy)

*Golgotha* (1884) is the second panel of the Christ trilogy by the Hungarian painter [Mihály Munkácsy](../../people/mentioned/MUNKACSY.md) (1844-1900), after *Christ before Pilate* (1881-82) and before *Ecce Homo* (1896). Oil on canvas, about 712 × 460 cm (Wikimedia Commons record). The Paris dealer Charles Sedelmeyer had urged Munkácsy to paint large biblical canvases that could be exhibited on their own; the trilogy was toured across Europe and the United States. *Golgotha* was bought by the American store magnate John Wanamaker (Wanamaker's purchase date is given as 1887 in the Hungarian accounts), was sold at auction in 1988, and now hangs in the Déri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary, with the other two canvases. (Sources: Wikipedia, "Mihály Munkácsy"; Wikimedia Commons file record; Déri Museum / Hungarian press as summarised in a web search, 2026-10.)

Gonin

Dressmaker in Nice whom the family had stopped using for over two years before this "solemn interview."

Gonzales Family

The Gonzales family was an Argentine family that Marie Bashkirtseff encountered in Baden-Baden around 1870. The family eventually became friends with the Bashkirtseffs despite initial misunderstandings involving romantic jealousy.

Gorpintchenko

Gouchkevitch

A Russian gentleman in Nice society who was part of the drinking party with Boreel after the Cercle Masséna ball.

Gouin

Dressmaker in Nice creating ball gowns for society.

Graces

Granada (Grenade)

Granada, the last stronghold of Moorish Spain (falling to the Catholic Monarchs in 1492), was one of the most dramatic destinations on the Bashkirtseff family's Spanish travels. The Alhambra palace, perched above the city with views of the Sierra Nevada, was one of Europe's most romantic and celebrated monuments, drawing artists, writers, and travelers from across the continent.

Grand Duc Alexis

- Type: people - mentioned

Grand Duc Constantin

- Type: people - mentioned

Grand Duchess (Nice, 1873)

An unidentified Russian Grand Duchess attending the Russian Orthodox church in Nice on June 1, 1873. Marie notes she appeared at church "pour la première fois depuis deux mois peut être" (for the first time in perhaps two months). The presence of several grand dukes at Mme Savelieff's funeral on May 15, 1873 (see TWO_GRAND_DUKES / GRAND_DUKES) confirms the Russian imperial family had members wintering in Nice in spring 1873.

Grand Duchess Constantin

- Type: people - aristocracy

Grand Duchess Dagmar

Maria Feodorovna, born Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847–1928), who married the Tsesarevich Alexander Alexandrovich on 9 November 1866 (en.wikipedia «Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)»); in the autumn of 1874 she was the "grande-duchesse héritière", the future Empress when Alexander III came to the throne in 1881. Marie writes «Dagmar».

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

The Duchess of Edinburgh was Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (17 October 1853 -- 25 October 1920), the only surviving daughter of Tsar Alexander II and Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna. She married Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (Queen Victoria's second son), on 23 January 1874 at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

Grand Duchess Marie

Russian Grand Duchess getting married in 1874, mentioned at the top of Marie's list of notable weddings.

Grand Duke Alexis

Russian Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (1850-1908), son of Emperor Alexander II. Remembered by Marie as exemplifying aristocratic perfection.

Grand Duke Nicolas

In Marie's 1874-1876 pages «le grand-duc Nicolas» is Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich (1850-1918), «fils de Constantin», nephew of the Emperor, the scandalous grand duke of the Fanny Lear affair and the diamond theft of 1874 (Wikipedia, "Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia"; the diary footnote at 064.0562 gives the same identification). The entry's earlier line that he was "marrying Mlle Skobeleff in 1874" is not established: it is only Marie's report of a rumour.

Grand Duke Vladimir (Voldemar)

Russian Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich (1847-1909), son of Emperor Alexander II. Marie remembers him as exemplifying aristocratic perfection like the Hamiltons.

Grand Duke Wladimir

Grand Dukes

- Type: people - mentioned

Grand Hotel

A hotel in Nice mentioned in Marie's diary entry of May 1, 1873. This is where Mlle Collignon's former lover is staying with another woman, causing great distress to the governess.

Grand Hotel (Vienna)

The hotel where Marie, her aunt, Dina and Paul stayed in Vienna during their visit to the 1873 World Exhibition (1–15 August 1873). Not to be confused with the Grand Hôtel in Paris (GRAND_HOTEL_PARIS) or the Nice hotel filed as GRAND_HOTEL.

Grand Hotel Paris

- Type: places - hotels

Grand mere

Grand Opera

Grand Prix

Grand Prix de Paris

The Grand Prix de Paris is the flat race for three-year-old thoroughbreds run each June at Longchamp, founded in 1863 by the Société d'Encouragement with a prize of 100,000 francs raised by the Duc de Morny from the city of Paris and the railway companies; it became the richest and most fashionable race of the French season. The first winner was the English colt The Ranger. (Source: Wikipedia, «Grand Prix de Paris», https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_de_Paris.) Winners in Marie's years, same source: 1874 Trent, 1875 Salvator, 1876 Kisber, 1877 Saint Christophe, 1878 Thurio, 1879 Nubienne.

Grand Saint Paul

A Paris shop named in Marie's list of the shops the family has toured on 1874-05-16 (019.0229): «Quand je pense où nous avons été au Louvre, au Bon Marché, au Petit Saint-Thomas, au Grand Saint-Paul, à la Tour Saint-Jacques, au Nez rose, à la Cheville tournée !!!» The Louvre, the Bon Marché and the Petit Saint-Thomas are real department stores (Grands Magasins du Louvre opened in 1855; the Petit Saint-Thomas dates from 1830: Wikipedia); the last names of the list read as jokes. No shop called "Grand Saint-Paul" was found in the sources searched, so whether this is a real store or one of Marie's jests is not settled.

Grand-16

Not a person: the «Grand Seize», the most famous private dining room (cabinet particulier no. 16) of the Café Anglais on the boulevard des Italiens, Paris. en.wikipedia «Café Anglais» calls it «Le Grand 16»; the Tour d'Argent's history of the Café Anglais cellar calls it the «Grand Seize» salon. The entry is filed under people/ by an old auto-generated stub; see OPEN-ITEMS (glossary) for the move to places/social.

Grand-maman

Grand-maman refers to Marie Bashkirtseff's maternal grandmother, the mother of Maria Stepanovna Babanina (Marie's mother). She was part of the Babanin family, Russian nobility with estates in Ukraine.

Grand-papa (Marie's Maternal Grandfather)

> **Alias note — "Papa".** In the 1873–1875 Nice diary Marie's bare "papa" is this man, not her father Constantin (who is "mon père"; see [#Papa](PAPA.md)). Tag bare "papa" in 1873–1875 as #Grand_papa. Exceptions: 013.0076, 013.0083, 013.0099 (Constantin's visit to Nice, Nov 1873); "Papa (rigolo)" = M. Paparigopoulos at Spa (021.0146–022.0298); "le papa" 012.0201 = the Pope; "danser le grand-papa" (017.0256) = a dance. "Papa" means Constantin only while Marie is with him: in Poltava and Gavronzi (Jul–Oct 1876, carnets 064–066) and in Paris (Nov 1876, 067.1054). In the Nice household bare "papa" stays the grandfather through 1877 (059.0752, 062.0057–0622, 072.0006, 072.0057, 074.0371), though from 1875 Marie mostly writes "grand-papa". Other 1875–76 "papa"s: old M. d'Audiffret, nicknamed "papa" (049.0305, 050.0122–0502), operetta refrains (048.0120–0452), and other people's fathers. Per-occurrence table for 031–075 in the ruling report. Ruling of 2026-09-26: `.claude/reports/papa-referent-2026-09-26.md`.

Grande Chaumiere (Academie de la Grande Chaumiere)

The Academie de la Grande Chaumiere was a private art school in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, located at 14bis rue de la Grande-Chaumiere. Founded in 1904, the academy in its later form postdates Marie Bashkirtseff's life. However, the street and the area around it were already associated with artists' studios and art education in Marie's era. If referenced in the diary, it may refer to another atelier or studio in the same area, or to the general artistic neighborhood of Montparnasse that preceded the formal academy.

Grande Duchesse Catherine

A grand duchess Catherine named once, on 1883-09-18 (101.0390), as one of the people who have noticed Marie through the Russian press: «Il paraît que la presse russe en s'occupant de moi a fait que tout le monde s'est occupé un peu de moi et entre autres la grande duchesse Catherine, maman s'est liée avec son grand chambellan et sa femme. Ça pourrait conduire à une nomination de fille d'honneur, car le chambellan est aimé de la grande duchesse. Quoi encore.» The Mon Journal t.16 index has «Catherine (grande duchesse): 37».

Grande Duchesse Heritiere

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grande duchesse Marie

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Grande Revue

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Grands Ducs

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Grands Magasins du Louvre

The Grands Magasins du Louvre were the large Paris department store on the rue de Rivoli, beside the Palais-Royal square and the Grand Hôtel du Louvre (not the museum, which is [#Louvre](../buildings/LOUVRE.md)). Per Wikipedia, «Louvre Saint-Honoré», the store opened in 1855 on the ground floor of the Pereire brothers' hotel and took the name Grands Magasins du Louvre from 1863; French sources name Alfred Chauchard and Auguste Hériot among its founders. It was one of the great fixed-price stores of the Second Empire and Third Republic, like [#Le Bon Marché](../theaters/LE_BON_MARCHE.md). (Dates as given by the sources consulted; they differ by a few years between them.)

Grattaminarda

Gravelotte

The battle of Gravelotte (Gravelotte–Saint-Privat), 18 August 1870, in the Franco-Prussian War. Named in a 1878 wedding report (081.0094) and in May 1883, when Marie goes to see Édouard Detaille's panorama of the evening of the battle (099.0516).

Graves

The marquis de Graves, a Paris society man of 1880–81, with a seat in the Opera and other boxes (Mon Journal t.13 index «Graves (M. de): 296»; t.14 «Graves (marquis de): 104»).

Greece (Grece)

Greece appears in Marie Bashkirtseff's diary through cultural references to classical antiquity, political discussions about the Eastern Question, and the broader classical education that formed the foundation of 19th-century European culture. Modern Greece, independent from the Ottoman Empire since 1830, was in Marie's time a small, relatively poor kingdom whose significance was magnified by the immense prestige of ancient Greek civilization.

Grenade

Granada in Andalusia, which Marie calls «Grenade». She visits it on her Spanish journey of October 1881 (looking back on 20 June 1882: «Comment j'ai passé à Tolède, Burgos, Cordoue, Séville, Grenade ! Grenade ! ... Eh bien c'est de la fièvre. Y retourner !!!», 095.0192) and, before the journey, uses it in a margin note as the home of ideal picturesque subjects.

Grenouillere

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Gretchen

Gretchen (Gabriel von Max)

A painting of Gretchen (Margarete), the heroine of Goethe's *Faust*, which Marie saw in September 1877 and which haunted her for days. She names the painter «Marx» in 074.0370 and «Max» in 075.0305. The identification with **Gabriel von Max** (1840-1915), the Prague-born Munich painter of dreamy, melancholy and often mystical female figures who also illustrated Goethe's *Faust* (a set of *Faust I* illustrations including «Gretchen im Kerker» is in the Frankfurt Goethe-Museum, per a web search summary), is supported by the Mon Journal t.11 index, which files 075.0305 as «Max (Michael), peintre allemand : 27» (Tome11.pdf p.28 = printed p.27): the editor too read «a German painter Max»; the forename Michael is not that of any known painter of the subject and looks like an index slip (the t.10 index files «Marx» of 074.0370 under an American «Marx (M.)», another slip). Settled for the painter (about 0.8). Which Gretchen picture she saw, and where, is not established (the paragraph follows her stop at Cologne on 17 September 1877).

Grevy

[Research needed]

Gridano

A young Romanian, introduced to the Bashkirtseffs the day before 2 July 1874 (Spa, July 1874) and mentioned once. Marie calls him «le petit laideron Gridano, un Roumain présenté à nous hier» and finds him tiresome for staying with the party while they wait for Mme Basilévitch before an event with a platform («l'estrade») (020.0504, 1874-07-02).

Gritsia

Gritz Miloradovitch

[Research needed]

Grottaminarda

The Duke of Grottaminarda (Neapolitan nobility), a friend of Prince Melissano, met by Marie in Naples in April-June 1877 (carnets 070-071). The Mon Journal t.10 index lists him as «Grattaminarda (duc de)», pp.118, 122, 144, 197; Marie spells it Grottaminarda at 070.0620 and elsewhere, Grattaminarda in the t.10 print at the cotillon passage. At the soirée of 15 April «le prince de Melissano amène son ami le duc de Grottaminarda qui demande depuis une semaine d'être présenté, un grand, blond, barbu et louche» (070.0620). During the cotillon «Grattaminarda est si grand qu'en se jetant par terre et étendant les bras tout le monde était à sa portée» (070.0624). He calls on 17 April (070.0679), and on 26 April at the countess Figliasi's ball he was told of Marie's chalk sketch (071.0014). In June he is one of «les trois camarades Larderel, Bernardaki et Grottaminarda» drinking Roederer (071.0542). No first name or date is given; the identification with a particular holder of the title is not attempted here.

Grotte de Fingal

Piece performed at a concert of pupils of Mme Damoreau in Nice on 17 April 1875: «deux autres paires de demoiselles jouèrent "La Grotte de Fingal"» (031.0261). Marie is unimpressed by the evening (the pupils «ont chanté vilainement»).

Grutli

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Guido Reni

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Guillaume Tell

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Guitry

Surname only, among the visitors of 19 January 1882 in Paris: «la Bailleul et sa cousine, la princesse Karageorgevitch, Alexis, Guitry» (094.0187). Mon Journal t.14 index: «Guitry (M.), 277» (this single mention).

Gullivers Travels

*Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World* (1726), better known as *Gulliver's Travels*, Jonathan Swift's satirical novel in four parts, is a book Marie knew in English. (The work and its date: see Wikipedia, «Gulliver's Travels».)

Gunnis

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Gustave Boulanger

Academic painter and one of the three principal masters of the Académie Julian, alongside Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury. He taught in the men's ateliers and, with the other masters, judged the competitions of the women's atelier where Marie studied. He is the "Boulanger" of Marie's art-school years (1878-1884), not the baker of 1873-07-13 ("Épousez un boulanger") and not General Boulanger.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist, author of *Madame Bovary* (1857) and *Bouvard et Pécuchet* (published posthumously, 1881), and literary mentor ("patron") to [Guy de Maupassant](GUY_DE_MAUPASSANT.md) — Maupassant met Zola, Turgenev, and other realist/naturalist writers at Flaubert's home, and is often described as Flaubert's protégé.

Gustave Pierret

M. Gustave Pierret, a Frenchman living in Nice (Place du Jardin Public, n° 1), to whom slanderous remarks about Marie's family had been attributed in Rome. Marie describes him on 9 January 1877 as «un grand brun, paupières rouges, barbe noire, tenue correcte» (068.0488).

Gutman

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Guy de Maupassant

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author celebrated as a master of the short story and a representative of the naturalist school. He depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.