Marina Tsvetaeva, Her Life in Poems - Rolf Gross
Marina Tsvetaeva, Her Life in Poems - Rolf Gross
Marina Tsvetaeva, Her Life in Poems - Rolf Gross
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1933 Efron unsuccessfully applies for a Soviet Passport<br />
1934 Move to Vanves. Andrey Bely dies<br />
Efron beg<strong>in</strong>s work for Union for the Return to the Motherland,<br />
controlled by the NKVD<br />
1935 Everyone except <strong>Mar<strong>in</strong>a</strong> wants to return to the Soviet Union<br />
1936 August <strong>in</strong> Haut Savoie. Family disagreements on return to USSR.<br />
Alya works for pro-Soviet Journal Our Union<br />
Spanish Civil War 1936-39<br />
Poem cycle <strong>Poems</strong> to an Orphan<br />
1937 Completion of My Pushk<strong>in</strong> (prose work), <strong>Mar<strong>in</strong>a</strong> works for journal<br />
Russian Notes<br />
March 15, Alya leaves for the USSR<br />
Alya <strong>in</strong>forms <strong>Mar<strong>in</strong>a</strong> of Sofia Gollidey's death: Story of Sonechka<br />
September 4, Soviet double-agent Ignaty Reyss murdered.<br />
French police implicates Efron. The NKVD spirits him to the USSR.<br />
Sept/October <strong>Mar<strong>in</strong>a</strong> is <strong>in</strong> length <strong>in</strong>terrogated by French police<br />
1938 <strong>Tsvetaeva</strong> moves to Paris, prepares to return to the USSR<br />
Entrusts her archives to Margarita Lebedva (lost 1940-42) and<br />
Prof. E. Maler <strong>in</strong> Basle<br />
Hitler's Munich Agreement<br />
1939 Hitler <strong>in</strong>vades Czechoslovakia: <strong>Poems</strong> to Bohemia<br />
June 12, <strong>Tsvetaeva</strong> and Mur leave Le Havre to follow Seryozha<br />
and Alya to the Motherland<br />
Family lives <strong>in</strong> a NKVD dacha at Bolshevo near Moscow<br />
August 28, Alya, October 10, Efron arrested on orders of Beria<br />
<strong>Tsvetaeva</strong> moves to Golitsyno near Moscow<br />
1940 Tsveateva petitions Beria on behalf of Sergey and Alya <strong>in</strong> va<strong>in</strong><br />
spends long hours <strong>in</strong> prison queues<br />
Translates poems by Vazha Pshavela (published 1947)<br />
Moves to various rooms <strong>in</strong> Moscow, given temporary apartment<br />
<strong>in</strong> October<br />
Volume of her poems rejected by Soviet publish<strong>in</strong>g house<br />
Trotsky assas<strong>in</strong>ated <strong>in</strong> Mexico City<br />
1941 <strong>Tsvetaeva</strong>'s only meet<strong>in</strong>g with Anna (Andreeva Gorenko)<br />
Akhmatova<br />
Hitler <strong>in</strong>vades the USSR<br />
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