To Prague, where he graduated as a lawyer. Rodzevich had been captured by the White Army and he had fled (1895-1988), an ex-Red Army officer and a friend of her husband.

Librettist Sofiia Párnok (1885-1933) inspired her cycle of poems calledĬareer stopped in the late 1920s when she was no longer allowed toĪnother affair Tsvetaeva had with Konstantin Borisovich Rodzevich Tsvetaeva's affair with the poet and opera Her technical mastery and was followed in 1913 by a selection of poemsįrom her first collections. In 1912 Tsvetaeva married Sergei Efron, they had two daughters and one son. Evening Album wasįavorable reviewed by Nikolai Gumilyov (1886-1921), a poet and literaryĬritic, who was accused after the Revolution of antiregime conspiracy The book was privately published and wasĭedicated to the narcissist diarist Bashkiartseff (1858-1884). As a poet she debuted at the age of 18 with the collection Evening Album,Ī tribute to her childhood. Tsvetaeva started to write verse in her early childhood. Schools in Switzerland, Germany, and at the Sorbonne, Paris. The family travelled a great deal and Tsvetaeva attended Ivan Tsvetayev, her father, wasĪ professor of art history and the founder of the Museum of FineĪrts. Tsvetaeva's mother Mariya, née Meyn, was a talented concert (in 'The Poet', translated by Elaine Feinstein) What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a Ostracized by the literary community she committed suicide in 1941. After returning to the Soviet Union and being

Due to her political views, she lived in exile in Among her innumerable themes wereįemale sexuality and the tension between women's private emotions and Marina Tsvetaeva'sĭisciplined poetry grew from her own contradictory personality and Literary rehabilitation began in the 1960s. One of the most original of the Russian 20th-century poets, whose Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) - also Marina Cvetaeva, Marina Tsvetayeva A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

My Poems... by Marina Tsvetaeva