I’ll die at dawn or daybreak!
I’ll die at dawn or daybreak!

Summary/Abstract: A woman of subtle intelligence and quick wit,” combining “a sense of humour with the capacity for handling abstract concepts without ever losing her discernment of concrete reality” (Slonim 1972: 121) and one of the most original twentieth-century Russian poets, Marina Tsvetaeva was born on October 8th 1892 in Moscow. Together with her younger sister, Anastasia, she represented a disappointment to their mother, who had dreamt about having sons and had already picked the names. Mariya Aleksandrovna Meyn, Tsvetaeva’s mother, an excellent pianist of German-Polish descent and Ivan Tsvetaev’s second wife had frequently expressed the wish of having her elder daughter follow in her footsteps, maintaining her opinion that Marina’s poetry was very poor and there was no future for her in the field.

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