Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok was a Russian poet, journalist and translator. From the age of six, she wrote poetry in a style quite distinct from the predominant poets of her times, revealing instead her own sense of Russianness, Jewish identity and lesbianism. Besides her literary work, she worked as a journalist under the pen name of Andrei Polianin. She has been referred to as "Russia's Sappho", as she wrote openly about her seven lesbian relationships.
Sophia Parnok
Birthplace of Parnok in Taganrog
Marina Tsvetaeva
Parnok in 1922
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