Marina Tsvetaeva: Difference between revisions

In May 1922, Tsvetaeva and Ariadna left [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] and were reunited in [[Berlin]] with Efron, whomwho she had thought had been killed by the Bolsheviks.<ref name="OCEL">"Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna" The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Edited by Dinah Birch. Oxford University Press Inc.</ref> There she published the collections ''Separation'', ''Poems to Blok'', and the poem ''The Tsar Maiden''. Much of her poetry was published in Moscow and Berlin, consolidating her reputation. In August 1922, the family moved to [[Prague]]. Living in unremitting poverty, unable to afford living accommodation in Prague itself, with Efron studying politics and sociology at the [[Charles University]] and living in hostels, Tsvetaeva and Ariadna found rooms in a village outside the city. She wrote: "We are devoured by coal, gas, the milkman, the baker... the only meat we eat is horsemeat." When offered an opportunity to earn money by reading her poetry, she had to beg a simple dress from a friend to replace the one she had been living in.<ref name="x">Feinstein (1993) px</ref>