Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) was a Russian poet whose work is among the best known in twentieth-century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote about the 1917 Revolution and the Moscow famine that followed, left Russia in 1922 and lived in Berlin, Prague and Paris before returning to Moscow in 1939. Her lyric poetry is known for its passion and daring linguistic experimentation.

October 8, 1892