William Henry Hudson
British-Argentinian ornithologist (1841-1924)
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaevawas a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well-known in twentieth-century Russian literature.
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Anastasia Tsvetayeva
Valeriia Ivanovna TSvetaeva
Sergei Efron
Ariadna Efron
Gueorgui Sergueievich Efron
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaevawas a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well-known in twentieth-century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Moscow famine.
Marina attempted to save her daughter Irina from starvation by placing her in a state orphanage in 1919, where Irina died of hunger. Tsvetaeva left Russia in 1922 and lived with her family in increasing poverty in Paris, Berlin and Prague before returning to Moscow in 1939. Her husband Sergei Efron and their daughter Ariadnawere arrested on espionage charges in 1941, when her husband was executed.
Tsvetaeva died by suicide in 1941. As a lyrical poet, her passion and daring linguistic experimentation mark her as a historical chronicler of her times and the depths of the human condition.