Marina Tsvetaeva
Poet, Author
1892 – 1941
Who was Marina Tsvetaeva?
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it. In an attempt to save her daughter Irina from starvation, she placed her in a state orphanage in 1919, where she died of hunger. Tsvetaeva left Russia in 1922 and lived with her family in increasing poverty in Paris, Berlin and Prague before returning to Moscow in 1939. Her husband Sergei Efron and her daughter Ariadna Efron were arrested on espionage charges in 1941; and her husband was executed. Tsvetaeva committed suicide in 1941. As a lyrical poet, her passion and daring linguistic experimentation mark her as a striking chronicler of her times and the depths of the human condition.
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- Born
- Oct 8, 1892
Moscow - Also known as
- Marina T͡S︡vetaeva
- Marina I. Tsvetaeva
- Marina T͡Svetaeva
- Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
- Marina Tsvetayeva
- Марина Цветаева
- Марина Ивановна Цветаева
- Tsvetaeva, Marina
- Parents
- Spouses
- Sergei Efron
(1912/01 - 1941/08/16)
- Sergei Efron
- Children
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Soviet Union
- Profession
- Education
- Charles University in Prague
Political sociology
(1922 - )
- Charles University in Prague
- Lived in
- Moscow
- Died
- Aug 31, 1941
Yelabuga
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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