Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva | |
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Tsvetaeva in 1925 | |
| Born | Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva 8 October 1892 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | 31 August 1941 (aged 48) Yelabuga, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Poet and writer |
| Education | Sorbonne, Paris |
| Literary movement | Russian symbolism |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, including Ariadna Efron |
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə]; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the best known in twentieth-century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Moscow famine.
Marina attempted to save her daughter Irina from starvation by placing her in a state orphanage in 1919, where Irina 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 their daughter Ariadna (Alya) were arrested on espionage charges in 1941, when her husband was executed.
Tsvetaeva hanged herself in 1941. A lyrical poet of passion and daring linguistic experimentation, she chronicled her times and the depths of the human condition.