Marina Tsvetaeva, Her Life in Poems - Rolf Gross

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museum opened in the presence of Emperor Nikolas II. Having witnessed Marina's happiness and Ariadne's birth he died in September 1913. In this winter Marina and Seryozha fled to Feodosia where Asya, her newly acquired husband, and a little daughter had settled. The Efrons moved into an apartment of their own on 6 Borisoglebsky Lane in Moscow. The big house with all its memories stood empty. The end of their childhood.... 16
Sofia Parnok Koktebel and Moscow 1914 -1916 Marina Tsvetaeva, 1914 Sofia Parnok, Koktebel ,1914 At Koktebel in the fall of 1914 Marina met the poet Sofia Parnok,“Sonya”, nine years older then she. The encounter grew into a lesbian affair that lasted two years. What were Marina's motives is not clear. Why did she tempt her happiness, her relationship with Seryozha, with Alya in this fierce fire Was it the emotional plateau she had reached, the tranquility offered by Seryozha's quiet temperament A flood of new poems of an as yet unexpressed intensity, erupted like a volcano from her soul. Sofia Parnok derailed her completely. All the dormant chasms between her sensuality, her poetic sensibilities, and the guilt feelings of her upbringing were torn open. Again her poems are filled by the torments of the most exalted and darkest sides of her character. Sofia Parnok had been briefly married and divorced. Driven by an insatiable need for freedom from all moral codes she had publicly declared herself a libertine and taken a lesbian lover. She was well known in Moscow. The fashionable woman literature of their times was full of such heroines. Asya swears that they had never read Verbitskaya or 17
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Page 3 and 4: poetic power like distress and - lo
Page 5 and 6: Childhood Moscow 8 Tryokhprudny Per
Page 7 and 8: children. In “Mother and Music”
Page 9 and 10: seventeen Marina began to smoke, a
Page 11 and 12: Koktebel Maximilian Voloshin's Have
Page 13 and 14: The motley crowd of greater and les
Page 15: did not concern her. My poems, writ
Page 19 and 20: She writes and a few days later des
Page 21 and 22: And I'll tell you: - All the same -
Page 23 and 24: orderly. Eventually he was drafted
Page 25 and 26: In December 1915 Marina was invited
Page 27 and 28: To Osip Mandelstam A strange anxiet
Page 29 and 30: Marina escaped on flights to the ot
Page 31 and 32: Love! Love! Even in convulsions, ev
Page 33 and 34: - Alya had these frequent attacks.
Page 35 and 36: ... Dead - and risen! Just enough f
Page 37 and 38: Berlin - Prague Ilya Ehrenburg Serg
Page 39 and 40: her and writes that “he had been
Page 41 and 42: etween her insatiable need for free
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Page 45 and 46: Swan-like... - But what happened Li
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Page 49 and 50: France 1925 - 1939 The Summer of 19
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Page 61 and 62: in 1924 and 1925), hence my long so
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to feign halves. We, confined to ci
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German is deeper than French, fulle
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eflection when it appears in the wa
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asleep, fast asleep. I sound quite
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winter!... "You don't need to answe
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This letter became the last in thei
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France 1925 - 1939 The Lure of the
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Mur and Marina, 1936 Photo dommuseu
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In your family album! Children! You
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People are all the same to me, And
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go. But there was, of course, no ch
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Marina Tsvetaeva, Golitsyno 1939 No
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The idea of suicide is disturbing t
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Marina Tsetaeva (1892 - 1941) Chron
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August 1, move to Prague, where the
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August 17, Marina and Mur evacuated
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Marina Zwtajewa, “Mutter und die
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