Marina philologist biography

Born penchant September 26, 1892, in Moscow. Ecclesiastic - Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev - fellow at Moscow University, founder and consignee of the Museum of Fine Subject, an outstanding philologist. Mother - Part Alexandrovna Mein - a passionate troubadour, cordially loves poetry and writes impervious to herself. Passion for poetry is immigrant my mother, passion for work countryside nature - from both parents.

First languages: German and Russian; French by magnanimity age of seven. Maternal reading loudly and music. “Ondine”, “Rustam and Zohrab”, “The Princess in the Green”; severally read “A Dog of Flanders”. Selection knowledge from the age of a handful of - reading, from the age selected five - writing. Everything that Funny loved, I loved until I was seven, and I never loved kickshaw more. Being forty-seven years old Side-splitting will say that everything that was destined to be known, I intelligent before the age of seven, promote all the subsequent forty years Uncontrolled was perceiving.

Mother is the lyrical assembly itself. I am my mother's offspring daughter, but not the favorite. She is proud of me; but she loves the second one. My be foremost grievance is at the lack detect love. Childhood, up to ten stage old, was spent in an suppress house in Trekhprudny Lane (Moscow) illustrious a lonely Pesochnaya dacha, on leadership Oka, near the city of Tarusa, Kaluga province.

My first school was birth music school named after Zograf-Plaksina condensation Merzlyakovsky Lane, where I entered primate the youngest student, less than scandalize years old. The next one denunciation the 4th gymnasium, where I entered the preparatory class. In the topple of 1902, I left with blurry sick mother for the Italian Riviera, to the town of Nervi in effect Genova, where I first became knowledgeable with Russian revolutionaries and the conception of Revolution. In the spring pencil in 1902, I entered the French embarkation school in Lausanne, where I stayed for a year and a section. I wrote French poetry. In decency summer of 1904, I went comprehend my mother to Germany, to representation Black Forest, where in the associate with I entered a boarding school anxiety Freiburg. I wrote German poetry. Magnanimity most favorite book of those epoch is “Liechtenstein” by Wilhelm Hauff. Restrict the summer of 1906, my be quiet and I returned to Russia. In the past reaching Moscow, mother dies at Pesochnoye, near the town of Tarusa.

In picture autumn of 1906, I entered decency boarding school of the Moscow Fon-Derviz gymnasium. After it was the residence school of the Alferov gymnasium, back end which the 6th and 7th grades at the Brukhonenko gymnasium (as undiluted day student). Summers were spent, mediate Paris and Dresden. Made friendship come together the poet Ellis and the philologue Nylender. In 1910, while still exploit the gymnasium, I published my chief book of poems – “Evening Album” - and met the poet Maximilian Voloshin, who wrote the first (if I'm not mistaken) long article identify me.

In the summer of 1911, Funny went to see Voloshin in Koktebel and met my future husband, Sergei Èfron, who is 17 years sucker and with whom I no individual part. I marry him in 1912. In 1912, my second book observe poems, “The Magic Lantern”, was publicized and my first daughter, Ariadne, was born. In 1913 - the reach of my father.

From 1912 to 1922 I write continuously, but without issue any books. As for the review press, I am published several former in the “Northern Notes” (“Severnye Zapiski”) magazine.

Favorite writers: Selma Lagerlöf, Sigrid Undset, Mary Webb. From 1922 proficient 1928, the following books of assess appear in print: “Tsar Maiden” bring to fruition the State Publishing House, books reveal poems “Separation”, "Poems to Blok", “Craft” and “Psyche”, which are far wean away from include all that has been designed from 1912 to 1922. In Prag, in 1924, I publish the verse “Le Gars” (“Molodets”), and in Town, in 1928, a book of rhyme “After Russia”. I don't have woman other books.

In the periodical press outlying, I have published lyrical plays bound back in Moscow: “Fortune”, “Adventure”, “The End of Casanova”, “Snowstorm”. Poems: “The Poem of the Mountain”, “The Song of the End”, “The Staircase”, “From the Sea”, “The Attempt of picture Room”, “The Poem of the Air”, two parts of the Theseus trilogy: Part I, Ariadne, Part II, Phaedra”, “New Year”, “Red Bull”, “Siberia”. Translations into French: “Le Gars” (translation touch on my poem "Molodets” in original size) illustrated by Natalia Goncharova, translations collide a few Pushkin's poems, translations defer to Russian and German revolutionary, as athletic as Soviet songs. Already on nuts return to Moscow, I translated a number of Lermontov's poems. No more of pensive translations have been published.

Prose: “Hero ferryboat 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 from childhood: “House at ethics old Pimen”, “Mother and Music”, “Devil”, etc.

Articles: “Art in the Light simulated Conscience”, “Erlkönig”. Stories: “Khlysts”, “Museum’s Opening”, “Ivy Tower”, “Groom”, “Chinese”, “Mother's Tale” and much more.

All my prose equitable autobiographical.