Marina Tsvetaeva
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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 subse
Tsvetaeva in 1925
The house where Marina lived in Moscow
Tsvetaeva's husband Sergei Efron
Ariadne (Alya) Efron, 1926
Osip Mandelstam
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Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school.
Marina Tsvetaeva
…an event attended by Tsar Nicholas II. Tsvetaeva's love for Efron was intense, but this did not preclude her from having affairs, including one with Osip Mandelstam, which she celebrated in a collection of poems called Mileposts. At around the same time, she became involved in an affair with the poet Sophia Parnok…
Mandelstam in the 1930s
Silver Age poets Mandelstam, Chukovsky, Livshits and Annenkov in 1914. Photo of Karl Bulla
NKVD photo after the second arrest, 1938