Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva

Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva was born in Moscow on 8 October 1892 and died in Yelabuga on 31 August 1941. A Russian poet and writer, she began writing poetry at the age of six, creating compositions in Russian, French, and German. During Stalin’s regime, Cvetaeva moved to Paris, only returning to Russia in 1939, where she was soon sent to a labour camp. A few years later, she took her own life. Her works were rehabilitated in the 1960s, and today Cvetaeva is regarded as the greatest exponent of twentieth-century Russian Symbolist poetry.