Tsvetaeva

[ tsvi-tahy-uh-vuh; Russian tsvyi-tah-yuh-vuh ]

noun

1. Ma·ri·na I·va·nov·na [mey-, ree, -n, uh, i-, vah, -n, uh, -v, uh, mer-, yee, -n, uh, ee-, vah, -n, uh, -v, uh], 1892–1941, Russian poet.

Tsvetaeva

/ tsfɛtəˈjeɪvə /

noun

1. TsvetaevaMarina (Ivanovna)18921941FRussianWRITING: poet Marina ( Ivanovna ). 1892–1941, Russian poet. Opposed to the Revolution, she left Russia (1922) and lived in Paris: when she returned (1939) her husband was shot and she committed suicide

Example Sentences

In four months he completed “The Flute-Player,” a political and sexual fantasy about a group of writers in an unnamed totalitarian state, loosely based on the lives of Ms. Akhmatova, the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak and the poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelstam.

From New York Times

It’s a good book, combining personal reminiscence and intensive reflection on works by poets as various as Siegfried Sassoon, Marina Tsvetaeva, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, Eugenio Montale, William Matthews and Haki R. Madhubuti, among many others.

From Washington Post

Marina Tsvetaeva’s diaries and notebooks.

From The Guardian

We stopped in at a museum dedicated to Marina Tsvetaeva, a beloved Russian poet who, in the early nineteen-hundreds, spent her childhood summers in the town.

From The New Yorker

Russia’s great modern poets, such as Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva, left as profound a mark on her prose as on her verse.

From Economist