Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow in 1892. She is counted among the most important Russian poets of the 20th century, alongside Pasternak, Mandelstam and Akhmatova.

She published her first collection of poetry in 1910. In 1912, she married the poet Sergei Efron, with whom she had two daughters and a son. She lived through and wrote about the Russian Revolution, and the famine that followed claimed the life of one of her daughters in 1920. She remained in the Soviet Union until 1922, when she was exiled, first to Bohemia and then to France. In 1939, she returned to the Soviet Union. That same year, her daughter was imprisoned and her husband was executed. The environment was particularly hostile towards her. She eventually took her own life in 1941, in the town of Yelabuga, where the Tsvetaeva Museum is now located.

Her poems were influenced by her complex personality, her relationships and her emotions. Due to her passion and bold experimentation, she is regarded as a great chronicler of her era.