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
Sergei Efron
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Sergei Yakovlevich Efron was a Russian poet, White Army officer, and the husband of fellow poet Marina Tsvetaeva. While in exile, he was recruited by the Soviet NKVD. After returning to the USSR from
Marina Tsvetaeva
…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. Tsvetaeva hanged herself in 1941. A lyrical…
Marina Tsvetaeva, Sergei Efron's wife and poet
Photo of Efron after his arrest by the NKVD, 1939