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 France, he was executed.
Sergei Efron
Marina Tsvetaeva, Sergei Efron's wife and poet
Ariadna (Alya) Efron, Sergei Efron's daughter, 1926
Photo of Efron after his arrest by the NKVD, 1939
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well known in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it.
Tsvetaeva in 1925
The house where Marina lived in Moscow
Tsvetaeva's husband Sergei Efron
Ariadne (Alya) Efron, 1926