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Marina Tsvetaeva

Died in 1941

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), born in Moscow, was the daughter of Ivan Tsvetaev, founder of the city's Museum of Fine Arts. She published her first collection at her own expense in 1910 and married Sergei Efron in 1912. She stayed in Moscow during the years of revolution and civil war, left Russia in 1922 for Berlin, then lived in Prague and, from 1925, in Paris. Returning to the Soviet Union in 1939, she was evacuated to Yelabuga in August 1941 and died there on 31 August.

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