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Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)

Marina Tsvetaeva portraitBorn in Moscow, the daughter of Professor Ivan Tsvetaev, the art historian who founded the Pushkin Museum of Art in Moscow Tsvetaeva finished school in 1908 and went to Paris where she attended lectures on literary history at the Sorbonne. Her first poems were printed shen she was sixteen. Her first book - "An Evening Album" - which came out in 1912, was praised by the critics, including Valery Bryusov. Tsvetaeva emigrated in 1922. She lived at first in Berlin and later moved to Prague and to Paris. Self-willed and proud, she eventually came to disagree more and more sharply with the ultra-reactionary emigre circles. She lived in dire poverty and suffered from homesickness. Her poems at that time were full of contempt and hatred for the rising wave of fascism in Europe. In 1939 she returned to to the Soviet Union with her family but was not accepted by the new regime. She was forced to suicide by the unbearing circumstances that she was surrounded with by the comunists.

Poems:
              Your me in a way. I used to...
              Still yesterday he met my gaze...


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