Marina Tsvetaeva (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lily Feiler
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1892-1941
- Setting: Russia, Italy, Germany, Czechoslovakia, France, and the Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Marina Tsvetaeva, Ivan Tsvetaev, Mariya Aleksandrovna, Anastasiya (Asya) Tsvetaeva, Sergey Efron, Ariadna (Alya) Efron, Georgi (Mur) Efron, Maksimilian Voloshin, Sofia Parnok, Osip Mandelstam, Sonya (Sonechka) Holliday, Boris Pasternak, Konstantin Rodzevich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Prisoners, Suicide, Music or musicians, Poetry or poets, Loneliness, Tuberculosis, Civil wars, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: France, Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, Russia, Czechoslovakia
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, born in Moscow on October 9, 1892, committed suicide in Yelabuga, a small village in the Tatar Republic, on August 31, 1941. Her grave lay unmarked for nearly two decades, as did her reputation. In 1955, during Nikita Khrushchev’s “thaw,” Tsvetaeva’s daughter, Ariadna, was released from seventeen years in the Soviet Union’s gulag and Siberian exile. She and her aunt, Anastasiya, freed in 1959, devoted the rest of their lives to resurrecting Tsvetaeva’s life and poetry. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, Tsvetaeva became the most popular poet of the...
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