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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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