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Marina Tsvetayeva*

• 1994 ----- color ----- 55 min ----- vhs
• Marina Tsvetayeva was one of the great poets of the 20th century and a contemporary of Akhmatova, Pasternak, Madelstam and Mayakovsky. She lived through World War I, the Revolution, the Civil War, and the Moscow Famine, and then in exile in Germany, Czechoslovakia, France and internal exile back in the Soviet Union. Determined to remain apolitical, she became a victim of her convictions. Her husband became an NKVD agent in Paris and her daughter a staunch Communist. She was shunned by the Russian emigre community. Despite her famous affairs, she was devoted to her husband and followed him back to Russia where she was sent into internal exile and committed suicide at the age of 49. Includes archival footage of the times and places that provided the backdrop of her life, readings in Russian and English of her poems, diaries and letters, dramatized scenes and interviews with key writers, biographers, and translators of her work. (Donated by the Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center) (Restricted to use within the state of Washington only)
• Topics: (Biography, History: Russian, East European and Central Asian, Literature, Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Soviet Union, Women Studies)

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