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On 31 August 1941, while living in Yelabuga, Tsvetaeva [[suicide by hanging|hanged herself]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=15049|title=Marina Tsvetaeva, Poet of the extreme|last=Cooke|first=Belinda|access-date=21 April 2009|archive-date=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820200941/http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=15049|url-status=dead}}</ref> She left a note for her son Mur: "Forgive me, but to go on would be worse. I am gravely ill, this is not me anymore. I love you passionately. Do understand that I could not live anymore. Tell Papa and Alya, if you ever see them, that I loved them to the last moment and explain to them that I found myself in a trap."<ref name="Feiler">Feiler, Lily (1994). ''Marina Tsvetaeva: the double beat of Heaven and Hell''. Duke University Press. p264 {{ISBN|978-0-8223-1482-0}}</ref>
According to the book ''The Death of a Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva'', the local NKVD department tried to force Tsvetaeva to start working as their informant, which left her no choice other than to commit suicide.<ref name="MLR">"The Death of a Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva", ''Modern Language Review'', July 2006 by Ute Stock</ref><ref>''The Death of a Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva''. By Irma Kudrova. Trans. by Mary Ann Szporluk. Woodstock, New York, and London: Overlook Duckworth. {{ISBN|1-58567-522-9}}. [http://tsvetaeva.synnegoria.com/WIN/kudrova/tretyaversia.html link to Russian language version]</ref>
Tsvetaeva was buried in Yelabuga cemetery on 2 September 1941, but the exact location of her grave remains unknown.
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