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Mlle Nadia Galitzine, the young daughter of the princess Nathalie Galitzine, Marie's friend «Bête» ([#Bete](BETE.md)). Mon Journal t.2 index: «Galitzine (Mlle Nadia), [Nadinka], [Bijou], fille» (pp. 51, 61, 87, 96, 144, 161, 174, 251, 259–260); t.3 index: «Galitzine (Mlle Nadia), [Bijou]» and «Bijou: Galitzine (Mlle Nadia)». She is with her mother at the Bashkirtseffs' in Nice («Je couche Nadia au salon jaune», 009.0183) and in their theatre box («moi, Dina, Nadia, Bête et Bijou», 019.0160); «Depuis deux jours la pauvre Nadia est malade et la princesse ne vient pas» (016/1874-02-04).

Nadine

Nadine Martinoff was a young orphan adopted by [#Vassilissa_Babanine](../family/VASSILISSA_BABANINE.md), Marie's great-aunt. She became the central figure in a calculated fortune-hunting scheme, marrying Marie's uncle [#Alexandre](../core/ALEXANDRE.md) at age 15 1/2.

Nadine Eristoff

Princess Nadine (Nadezhda) Elimiévna Eristoff, a young orphaned princess of the Eristoff family of Poltava, sister of Prince Constantin Eristoff (the lover of Marie's aunt Mme Tutcheff). Marie's brother Paul was in love with her and hoped to marry her in 1877–1879. The Mon Journal t.12 index has «Eristoff (Nadine Elimiévna, princesse) : 99, 150, 152, 182, 208, 220»; of those pages, 99, 182 and 220 are this girl, while 150, 152 and 208 are Marie's aunt Nathalie, Princess Eristoff ([PRINCESSE_ERISTOFF](../mentioned/PRINCESSE_ERISTOFF.md)), so the index merges the two.

Nadine Martinoff

Nadine Romanoff (Ma tante)

Nadejda (Nadine, Nadia, Nadinka) Stepanovna Babanina, Madame Romanoff, was Marie Bashkirtseff's maternal aunt, the younger sister of [#Maman](./MAMAN.md) and a daughter of Stepan Babanine ([#Grand_papa](./GRAND_PAPA.md)) and Julie Cornelius ([#Grand_maman](./GRAND_MAMAN.md)). Kernberger (2013, Appendix I) lists her as "Nadine (Nadianka, Nadya) Babanine Romanoff: Marie's aunt, married Thaddeus Romanoff, provides money for the family's stay abroad" and "Stepanovna, Nadezhda: Marie's Aunt Nadya, identified by her patronymic". No source seen gives her birth or death dates.

Nadinka

«Nadinka» (a Russian pet form of Nadejda/Nadine) who writes from Russia in April 1875 that Paul has been received at their father's with cannon salutes and champagne (031.0307). Not identified; she is not the Nice Nadinka of 1873 (012.0075, 012.0207), who is Mlle Nadia Galitzine ([#Nadia](NADIA.md)).

Namara

- Type: people - mentioned

Nana (Émile Zola)

*Nana* (1880) is the ninth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume *Rougon-Macquart* cycle (Wikipedia, "Nana (novel)"). It was serialised in the daily *Le Voltaire* from 16 October 1879 to 5 February 1880 under an advertising campaign that covered the walls of Paris with posters, and appeared in book form with Charpentier in February 1880 (Wikipedia). It follows the rise of a young woman of the working-class Parisian demi-monde, Anna Coupeau, "Nana", who becomes a courtesan and destroys the men around her. The novel opens at the Théâtre des Variétés with the first night of an invented opéra-bouffe, **La Blonde Vénus** (a pastiche of Offenbach's *La Belle Hélène*), in which the talentless Nana, cast as Venus, takes the house by her body rather than her voice (Wikipedia).

Nancy

[Research needed]

Naples (Napoli)

[Naples](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples), the great southern Italian port city on the Bay of Naples, is one of the most significant locations in Marie Bashkirtseff's diary. It appears first as a dream destination (1873), then as a fantasy refuge from Nice's social cruelties (1874), and finally as the setting for two extended visits -- in April 1876 and February 1877 -- that produced some of the diary's most vivid passages. Marie's Naples experiences encompass the full range of her emotional life: social humiliation and social triumph, romantic obsession, cultural discovery, and existential despair. The city continued to haunt her memory through her Paris years, surfacing as late as 1883 in passages of piercing nostalgia.

Napoleon

Napoleon by Dumas

A historical work by Alexandre Dumas about Napoleon Bonaparte. Marie reads this book aloud to her father on April 8, 1875, showing her enjoyment of Dumas' historical narratives.

Napoleon I

Napoléon Bonaparte (1769–1821), Emperor of the French 1804–1814/15 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon)). For Marie he is the measure of greatness, beside Alexander and Caesar, and the founder of the dynasty she supports as a Bonapartist. Bare plural «les Napoléon» (the family) is not tagged here.

Napoleon Ier

Napoleon III

[Research needed]

Napoleon IV

- Type: people - mentioned

Nasimoff

M. Nasimoff, Russian vice-consul in Naples: «Le vice-consul de Russie, M. Nasimoff, averti hier de notre arrivée, a été chez nous. Maman l'a connu à Paris par le diacre» (058/1876-04-15). Mon Journal t.7 index: «Nasimoff (vice-consul de Russie)»; Kernberger (2013, glossary): «Nasimoff: consul in Naples».

Nastia

A woman in Nice society whom Marie observed talking with Boreel during the February 1873 promenade season.

Nathalie

Nathalie de Manerville

- Type: people - mentioned

Nathalie Patton

A member of the Patton household in Nice, probably a daughter of old Mme Patton (the diary does not say). On 19 April 1874, at the Pattons', «Nathalie me montra la maison» (018.0318), after which Marie was bored in the garden. Also tagged in 1873 (004/1873-04-22, 05-11, 05-16; 006/1873-07-05; 012/1873-11-04). The former entry NATHALIE is merged here.

Nature & Landscape

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where Marie looks at nature for itself: a view, the sea, a garden, a moonlit lake, the Russian steppe or the Riviera hills, described or felt as landscape. It is about what she sees and feels in front of nature, not about the day's weather.

Nebuchadnezzar

Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, who in the Book of Daniel (4:28–33, footnote 024.0035.1) was driven from men and lived like an ox for seven years until his reason returned.

Nejentsov

Russian man who appears to be inappropriately attached to Paul, Marie's 14-year-old brother.

Nélie Jacquemart

Nélie (Cornélie) Jacquemart (1841–1912), French portrait painter, much in demand for official portraits in the 1870s. In 1881 she married the banker and collector Édouard André; their house on the boulevard Haussmann became the Musée Jacquemart-André (Wikipedia, "Nélie Jacquemart"). The Mon Journal t.12 index has «Jacquemart (Nélie), peintre : 198». Marie spells the name «Jacquemard».

Nelly

- Type: people - mentioned

Nemekoff

- Type: people - mentioned

Nemours

Louis d'Orléans, duc de Nemours (1814–1896), second son of King Louis-Philippe (footnote 091.0355.3; Mon Journal t.12 index «Nemours (Louis Charles, duc de) : 33»; t.14 p.104). His son Gaston, comte d'Eu, married Isabel, heiress to the Brazilian throne, hence Marie's «future impératrice».

Neppency

Neppency, a confectioner's shop (Mon Journal t.4 index: «Neppency, confiserie, 131»).

Nero

Roman Emperor (37-68 AD), infamous for tyranny and excess.

Nervo

A person at the Howard dance whom Marie associates with her Aunt Tutcheff in a mocking way.

Neuenhagen

A garden at or near Berlin that Marie walks in on 29 July 1876, on the way to Russia: «Nous nous sommes promenées dans le jardin de Neuenhagen. Je m'amuse à barbouiller l'allemand. On nous a conduites ensuite à Bellevue-Schloss où il y a le mausolée du roi Frédéric et de la reine Louise ... Le parc est beau et tout le chemin jusqu'à Berlin est une magnifique allée» (064.0307). The party is Marie, her aunt and the servant boy Chocolat, who «attire l'attention de tous ces fichus Prussiens».

Neufarge

The chevalier de Neufarge, a handsome, well-dressed man with a bad reputation at Spa in July 1874 (Mon Journal t.3 index: «Neufarge (M. de), 257-258, 260»; t.4 «Neufarge (M. de), 5–7, 9, 13, 15, 60, 79»). Marie records the gossip that he is «fils bâtard d'un prince russe qui lui légua une grande fortune, que cette beauté gaspilla à moitié» (020.0506).

Neuveglise

A fellow art student and friend at Atelier Julian in Paris. Neuveglise appears regularly in Marie's entries as one of her close companions at the atelier.

Neva (La Neva)

The Neva is the major river flowing through St. Petersburg, Russia. Though only 74 km long, it is one of the most symbolically important rivers in Russian culture, as St. Petersburg was built on its banks and delta by Peter the Great. The Neva's wide, majestic flow through the city center, flanked by palaces, cathedrals, and government buildings, made it the defining feature of St. Petersburg's urban landscape.

New Scotland

Dressmaker or fashion house in Nice where Marie orders clothing.

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve celebrations and rituals as experienced by Marie Bashkirtseff in Nice. The most significant entry is December 31, 1873, where Marie performs an intimate midnight ritual with the Duke of Hamilton's photograph.

Newski Prospect (Nevsky Prospekt)

The Nevsky Prospect (Prospekt) is the main avenue of St. Petersburg, stretching 4.5 km from the Admiralty to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. In Marie Bashkirtseff's time, it was one of the grandest streets in Europe, lined with palaces, churches, theaters, hotels, and shops. Immortalized by Gogol in his story "Nevsky Prospect" (1835), the avenue was the social and commercial heart of the Russian capital.

Niccolini

- Type: people - mentioned

Niccolò de' Lapi

Niccolò de' Lapi, ovvero i Palleschi e i Piagnoni is a historical novel by Massimo d'Azeglio, published in 1841. Set during the 1530 Siege of Florence, it follows an elderly silk merchant caught between rival Florentine factions — the Piagnoni (Savonarola nostalgists) and the Palleschi (Medici supporters).

Nice

Nice (Occitan: *Nissa*; Italian: *Nizza*) was Marie Bashkirtseff's primary home during the formative years of her diary (1873-1877) and the city where she began writing on January 11, 1873. A fashionable winter resort on the French Riviera, Nice had been annexed from the Kingdom of Sardinia only thirteen years before Marie's family arrived, through the Treaty of Turin (1860). In Marie's time, the city was undergoing rapid transformation: its population had risen from roughly 48,000 in 1861 to over 88,000 by 1872, driven by tourism, French administrative expansion, and Italian immigration. By the 1870s, Nice hosted an estimated 25,000 foreign winter residents annually, predominantly British but with substantial Russian, German, and other European colonies.

Nice Carnival

- Type: people - mentioned

Nice Port

The port of Nice, visited by Marie on May 3, 1873. She goes there with Mlle Collignon in a carriage, initially joking about going to "see yachts."

Nice Prefet

Nice Races (Hippodrome de Nice)

Horse racing venue and major social event in Nice during the winter season.

Nicholas Nickleby

Novel by Charles Dickens (1838-1839) about a young man supporting his family.

Nick

- Type: people - mentioned

Nicois

- Type: people - mentioned

Nicolas

- Type: people - mentioned

Nicolas I

Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia (1796–1855, r. 1825–55), father of Alexander II. The diary mentions him as a former sovereign.

Nicolini

[Research needed]

Nihiliste

[Research needed]

Nijni Novgorod

The Volga city known for its great annual trade fair. It is mentioned twice, both times in connection with Russia.

Nikiforoff

- Type: people - mentioned

Nikolay Ogarev

Nikolay Platonovich Ogarev (1813-1877), Russian poet and radical publicist, Herzen's lifelong friend and co-editor of the émigré journal *Kolokol*, in exile in England from 1856 (Wikipedia, «Nikolay Ogarev»). Marie calls him «Ogareff, le socialiste» (024.0204). He appears in October 1874 only through the letters he writes to Makaroff, the Bashkirtseffs' acquaintance at Nice: in one of them, in a fit of irritation (he was, Marie notes, very ill), he says he bit Turgenev's ear (024.0204, 024.0230); Makaroff, who takes everything seriously, is grieved that «un homme comme Ogareff a pu se porter à un acte d'aussi grossière violence» (024.0235), while Mme Sapogenikoff and Yourkoff, who know all his correspondence with Ogareff, are amused. The Mon Journal t.4 index has «Ogareff (M.), 165, 168-169». He is **not** the General Ogareff of 066.0242, see [OGAREFF](../mentioned/OGAREFF.md).

Nillsson

A woman called «la Nillsson» in two paragraphs: a crossed-out remark in 1880 that Mlle de Cerny «ressemble beaucoup à la Nillsson» (087.0394; LAN: probably the Swedish soprano Christina Nilsson, 1843–1921), and, in 1883, a woman at the Mont-Dore with whom Saint-Amand warned the family not to talk, because «elle se croit un homme» (101.0218). The Mon Journal t.16 index has «Nillsson (Mme) : 22».

Nina

Mme Nina Sapogenikoff, a Russian lady of the Nice colony, mother of Marie's friends Olga and Marie Sapogenikoff («les Grâces») and the companion of Nicolas Yourkoff («Pâris»). The Mon Journal indexes call her «Sapogenikoff (Mme Nina), [Hélène]» (t.4, t.5) and «Sapogenikoff (Mme Nina)» (t.6); Kernberger (2013, glossary): «Sapogenikoff, Nina: mother of Mary and Olga Sapogenikoff».

Nina Laffite

Nina Laffite, a new singer who made her debut at the Nice theatre in Offenbach's *Orphée aux enfers* on 27 October 1874.

Noe

- Type: people - mentioned

Noel

- Type: people - mentioned

Nordgren

- Type: people - mentioned

Nordlander

- Type: people - mentioned

Norov

Old friend of Marie's father, reunited after 40 years of separation.

Norscott (Alexandrine Norscott)

**Norscott** is a pseudonym, not a real family. "Alexandrine Norscott" is the alias under which Mme Marie de Daillens, née de Mouzay, attended the feminist society Le Droit des femmes in December 1880; "M. Norscott" is the invented late English husband of that persona. See [Mme de Daillens](DE_DAILLENS.md) for the full identification and sources.

Notre Dame

- Type: places - churches

Notre-Dame de Nice

Catholic church in Nice where charity collections are organized.

Notre-Dame de Paris

The cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. Marie climbs to the top in October 1878 (083.0007), compares a face to one of its roof monsters (084.0489) and goes there with the Gavini in June 1879 (085.0296). Victor Hugo's novel of the same name (086.0659) is not tagged here.

Nouvelle Revue

[Research needed]

Novoic Vremia