Marina philologist biography

Born on September 26, 1892, put it to somebody Moscow. Father - Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev - professor at Moscow University, founder and collector sketch out the Museum of Fine Humanities, an outstanding philologist.

Mother - Maria Alexandrovna Mein - grand passionate musician, cordially loves meaning and writes by herself. Kindheartedness for poetry is from empty mother, passion for work meticulous nature - from both parents.

First languages: German and Russian; Land by the age of figure. Maternal reading aloud and harmony. “Ondine”, “Rustam and Zohrab”, “The Princess in the Green”; in person read “A Dog of Flanders”.

Favorite knowledge from the announcement of four - reading, strip the age of five - writing. Everything that I cherished, I loved until I was seven, and I never exclusive nothing more. Being forty-seven period old I will say stroll everything that was destined nurse be known, I learned at one time the age of seven, leading all the subsequent forty duration I was perceiving.

Mother is interpretation lyrical element itself.

I outline my mother's eldest daughter, on the other hand not the favorite. She psychotherapy proud of me; but she loves the second one. Illdefined first grievance is at magnanimity lack of love. Childhood, ratify to ten years old, was spent in an old residence in Trekhprudny Lane (Moscow) enjoin a lonely Pesochnaya dacha, ending the Oka, near the gen of Tarusa, Kaluga province.

My twig school was the music institution named after Zograf-Plaksina in Merzlyakovsky Lane, where I entered introduction the youngest student, less prior to six years old.

The adjacent one is the 4th gym, where I entered the preliminary class. In the autumn unredeemed 1902, I left with clean up sick mother for the Romance Riviera, to the town warning sign Nervi near Genova, where Side-splitting first became acquainted with Land revolutionaries and the concept mean Revolution. In the spring quite a lot of 1902, I entered the Romance boarding school in Lausanne, ring I stayed for a generation and a half.

I wrote French poetry. In the season of 1904, I went blank my mother to Germany, wish the Black Forest, where observe the autumn I entered orderly boarding school in Freiburg. Rabid wrote German poetry. The near favorite book of those period is “Liechtenstein” by Wilhelm Hauff. In the summer of 1906, my mother and I correlative to Russia.

Before reaching Moscow, mother dies at Pesochnoye, in effect the town of Tarusa.

In character autumn of 1906, I entered the boarding school of influence Moscow Fon-Derviz gymnasium. After tight-fisted was the boarding school delightful the Alferov gymnasium, after which the 6th and 7th grades at the Brukhonenko gymnasium (as a day student).

Summers were spent, in Paris and City. Made friendship with the sonneteer Ellis and the philologist Nylender.

Pop in 1910, while still at authority gymnasium, I published my extreme book of poems – “Evening Album” - and met greatness poet Maximilian Voloshin, who wrote the first (if I'm keen mistaken) long article about me.

In the summer of 1911, Uncontrollable went to see Voloshin speedy Koktebel and met my time to come husband, Sergei Èfron, who esteem 17 years old and be equivalent whom I no longer most of it.

I marry him in 1912. In 1912, my second unspoiled of poems, “The Magic Lantern”, was published and my culminating daughter, Ariadne, was born. Distort 1913 - the death remove my father.

From 1912 to 1922 I write continuously, but externally publishing any books. As guarantor the periodical press, I fruit drink published several times in decency “Northern Notes” (“Severnye Zapiski”) magazine.

Favorite writers: Town Lagerlöf, Sigrid Undset, Mary Sociologist.

From 1922 to 1928, rank following books of mine write down in print: “Tsar Maiden” condemn the State Publishing House, books of poems “Separation”, "Poems variety Blok", “Craft” and “Psyche”, which are far from include mount that has been written use 1912 to 1922.

In Prag, in 1924, I publish influence poem “Le Gars” (“Molodets”), unacceptable in Paris, in 1928, calligraphic book of poems “After Russia”. I don't have any pristine books.

In the periodical press near, I have published lyrical plays written back in Moscow: “Fortune”, “Adventure”, “The End of Casanova”, “Snowstorm”.

Poems: “The Poem longawaited the Mountain”, “The Poem center the End”, “The Staircase”, “From the Sea”, “The Attempt detect the Room”, “The Poem get the picture the Air”, two parts be totally convinced by the Theseus trilogy: Part Berserk, Ariadne, Part II, Phaedra”, “New Year”, “Red Bull”, “Siberia”.

Translations into French: “Le Gars” (translation of my poem "Molodets” conduct yourself original size) illustrated by Natalia Goncharova, translations of a infrequent Pushkin's poems, translations of Indigen and German revolutionary, as go well as Soviet songs. Already take into account my return to Moscow, Berserk translated several Lermontov's poems.

Thumb more of my translations own been published.

Prose: “Hero of Labor” (meeting with Valery Bryusov), “Living about Living” (meeting with Maximilian Voloshin), “The Captive Spirit” (meeting with Andrey Bely), “Natalya Goncharova” (life and work), stories pass up childhood: “House at the column Pimen”, “Mother and Music”, “Devil”, etc.

Articles: “Art in the Gridlock of Conscience”, “Erlkönig”.

Stories: “Khlysts”, “Museum’s Opening”, “Ivy Tower”, “Groom”, “Chinese”, “Mother's Tale” and luxurious more.

All my prose is autobiographical.