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Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva 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.
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culture · Russian poet (1892–1941) · poet · writer · diarist · prose writer · translator · playwright · also Marina Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva, Marina Tsvetajeva, Marina I. Cvetaeva, Marina Iwanowna Zwetajewa, Tsvetaeva
Born 26 September 1892 · Died 31 August 1941 · Q188526
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2023· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
Фонд «Русский мир»: Marina Tsvetaeva 130th anniversary celebrated worldwide
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2021· 1 entry
San Diego Reader: Marina Tsvetaeva: a witness to the horrors of totalitarian rule
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2019· 2 entries
Tehran Times: A Captive Spirit: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Russia
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American composer Mark Abel wrote Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, the first classical song cycle of the poet in an English translation
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2014· 1 entry
RBTH: The final days of Russian writers: Marina Tsvetaeva
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2011· 1 entry
Was renamed MV Ortelius and is currently operated by Oceanwide Expeditions as a tourist vessel in the polar regions
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2008· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: Marina Tsvetaeva
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2003· 1 entry
The opera Marina: A Captive Spirit, based on Tsvetaeva's life and work, premiered from American Opera Projects in New York with music by Deborah Drattell and libretto by poet Annie Finch
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2002· 1 entry
Yale University Press published Jamey Gambrell's translation of post-revolutionary prose, entitled Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, with notes on poetic and linguistic aspects of Tsvetaeva's prose, and endnotes
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1998· 1 entry
By Overlook in 2004, and by Shearsman Books in 2021), In the Inmost Hour of the Soul (Humana Press, 1989), and Other Shepherds (Poets & Traitors Press, 2020)
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1989· 1 entry
In Gdynia, Poland, a special-purpose ship was built for the Russian Academy of Sciences and named Marina Tsvetaeva in her honor
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1982· 1 entry
By Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina, is named after her
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1973· 1 entry
Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich set six of Tsvetaeva's poems in his Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva
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1941· 2 entries
Died 1941-08-31.
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Tsvetaeva and her son were evacuated to Yelabuga (Elabuga), while most families of the Union of Soviet Writers were evacuated to Chistopol
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1939· 3 entries
And her son returned to Moscow, unaware of the reception she would receive
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Tsvetaeva became lonely and alarmed by the rise of fascism, which she attacked in Stikhi k Chekhii ("Verses to Czechia" 1938–39)
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To the Soviet Union, were principally a "prose decade", though this would almost certainly be by dint of economic necessity rather than one of choice
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1925· 1 entry
The family settled in Paris, where they would live for the next 14 years
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1923· 2 entries
Was almost certainly the inspiration for her The Poem of the End and "The Poem of the Mountain"
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In the collection Remeslo), and it is the first poem which may be deemed incomprehensible in that it is fundamentally a soundscape of language
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1922· 2 entries
Published a long pro-imperial verse fairy tale, Tsar-devitsa ("Tsar-Maiden")
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And lived with her family in increasing poverty in Paris, Berlin and Prague before returning to Moscow in 1939
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1920· 2 entries
When the anti-communist White Army was finally defeated
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Alya became ill, and Tsvetaeva removed her, but Irina died there of starvation in 1920.
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1919· 1 entry
Placed both her daughters in a state orphanage, mistakenly believing that they would be better fed there
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1916· 1 entry
And resolve themselves as a versified journal
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1914· 1 entry
Efron volunteered for the front and by 1917 he was an officer stationed in Moscow with the 56th Reserve
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1912· 2 entries
The same year as her father's project, the Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts, was ceremonially opened, an event attended by Tsar Nicholas II
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Tsvetaeva and her husband spent summers in the Crimea until the revolution, and had two daughters: Ariadna, or Alya (born 1912), and Irina (born 1917).
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1910· 1 entry
Promoted her considerable reputation as a poet
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1908· 1 entry
Aged 16, Tsvetaeva studied literary history at the Sorbonne
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-09-26.
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