

After enjoying a relatively secure and comfortable childhood, she published her first poems in 1910 and in 1911 married fellow poet Sergei Efron. Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow in 1892, the daughter of a pianist and a museum curator.

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An acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poetĪn admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva was a witness to the political turmoil and the social devastation wrought by the Russian Revolution and a powerfully inspired chronicler of a difficult life and exile sustained by poetry.
