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Marina Tsvetaeva

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Also known as Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva, Marina Tsvetajeva, Marina I. Cvetaeva, Marina Iwanowna Zwetajewa

Russian poet (1892 – 1941)

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Marina Tsvetaeva was a major Russian poet of the 20th century whose innovative and emotionally intense work made her one of the most important literary figures of her era. Her life and career, marked by exile and personal struggle, reflect the turbulent history of Russia during the Soviet period and continue to influence poetry and literary studies today.

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Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
Soviet Union
Place of birth
Moscow
Place of death
Yelabuga
Spouse
Sergei Efron
Father
Ivan Tsvetaev
Occupation
translator
Educated at
University of Paris
Languages spoken
German
Field of work
performing arts
Genre
memoir
Movement
modernism
Image
Марина Цветаева (1925) (cropped).jpg
Number of children
3
Work location
Moscow
Residence
Yelabuga
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Marina Tsvetaeva
date of birth
1892-10-08
date of death
1941-08-31
manner of death
Suicide
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Marina Tsvetaeva
start of work period
1908-00-00
end of work period
1941-00-00
place of burial
Yelabuga
unmarried partner
Sophia Parnok
cause of death
hanging to death
has works in the collection
Nationalmuseum
writing language
German
name in native language
Марина Ивановна Цветаева
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sexual orientation
bisexuality
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə]; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) 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.

Marina attempted to save her daughter Irina from starvation by placing her in a state orphanage in 1919, where Irina died of hunger. Tsvetaeva left Russia in 1922 and lived with her family in increasing poverty in Paris, Berlin and Prague before returning to Moscow in 1939. Her husband Sergei Efron and their daughter Ariadna (Alya) were arrested on espionage charges in 1941, when her husband was executed.

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