Tsvetaeva

American  

[tsvi-tahy-uh-vuh, tsvyi-tah-yuh-vuh] / tsvɪˈtaɪ ə və, tsvyɪˈtɑ yə və /

noun

1. Marina Ivanovna 1892–1941, Russian poet.

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Tsvetaeva British  

/ tsfɛtəˈjeɪvə /

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

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

The Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva read there on a brief visit to Paris, but was not a success: not only was she unfashionably dressed, but the work she read was also old fashioned, representing lesbian love, in the manner of the 1890s, as a kind of vampirism.

From The Guardian