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Marina Tsvetaeva

1892 - 1941

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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə]; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) was 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marina Tsvetaeva is the 601st most popular writer (down from 562nd in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Russia (down from 184th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Writer.

Marina Tsvetaeva is most famous for her poem cycle, "Poem of the End."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 601 out of 7,302. Before her are Juana Inés de la Cruz, Su Shi, Robert Burns, Bell hooks, Gustav Meyrink, and Paul Lafargue. After her are Alfred de Musset, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ausonius, Lion Feuchtwanger, Bert Hellinger, and Ellen G. White.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 35. Before her are Gregor Strasser, Erwin Panofsky, Darius Milhaud, Corneille Heymans, Arthur Friedenreich, and J. Paul Getty. After her are Shirō Ishii, Ernst Lubitsch, Robert Ritter von Greim, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Bruno Schulz, and Martin Niemöller. Among people deceased in 1941, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 20. Before her are Arthur Evans, James George Frazer, Robert Delaunay, Ioannis Metaxas, El Lissitzky, and Ignacy Jan Paderewski. After her are Émile Picard, Hans Spemann, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Alexej von Jawlensky, Frederick Banting, and Prajadhipok.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 191 out of 3,761. Before her are Ivan Krylov (1769), Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Andrei Tupolev (1888), and Sergei Diaghilev (1872). After her are Öz Beg Khan (1282), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882), Felix Yusupov (1887), and Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 25. Before her are Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Ivan Bunin (1870), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Alexander Herzen (1812), and Ivan Krylov (1769). After her are Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Alexander Blok (1880), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Arthur Adamov (1908), and Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843).

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