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Tsvetaeva, Marina ___ 1892-1941 ___
Russian ___ poet
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow. Her
father was a professor of art history at the University, and her mother
was both literary and musical. She had one sister and two half-siblings,
the children of her father's first wife (who had died). In 1902, Tsvetaeva's
mother contracted TB, and this led the family to seek a healthier climate.
They lived abroad - partly at Nervi, near Genoa where there were many Russian
emigre revolutionaries - until shortly before her mother's death in 1906.
Tsvetaeva studied in Lausanne and at the Sorbonne. In 1911, a first collection
of her poems appeared, but then, for some years her verses circulated in
manuscript form because of the shortage of printing paper. The poet and
critic Maximilian Voloshin befriended her, and it was at his home in the
Black Sea resort of Koktebel that she met a cadet in the Officers' Academy,
Sergei Efron. They married in 1912 and lived in the Crimea, and had two
daughters, Ariadna and Irina. After the 1917 Revolution Marina returned
to Moscow hoping to be reunited with her husband, but she was trapped there
during the famine and Irina died. In 1922, Tsvetaeva and Alya left the Soviet
Union and were reunited with Efron in Berlin. They also moved to Prague,
but finally settled in Paris. Tsvetaeva's writing, during this period, in
praise of the Tsarist forces was not published in Russia until much later.
In 1939, still a patriot, she returned to Russia, but was then evacuated
from Moscow during the war, and committed suicide soon after. Tsvetaeva
wrote several plays as well as narrative verse. One cycle of poems in the
style of a diary begins on the day of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in 1917,
and ends in 1920, when the anti-communist White Army was finally defeated.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1917-1920 ___ literary military
WEB TEXT LINKS
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |