Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 by Tsvetaeva, Marina; Gambrell, Jamey [trans.] - 2002

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New York: NYRB Classics, 2017. New Book. Paperback, 288 pp. A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsvetaeva ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life buffeted by political upheaval. The essays collected in this volume are based on diaries she kept during the turbulent years of the Revolution and Civil War. In them she records conversations of women in the markets, soldiers and peasants on the train traveling from the Crimea to Moscow in October 1917, fighting in the streets of Moscow, a frantic scramble with co-workers to dig frozen potatoes out of a cellar, and poetry readings organized by a newly minted Soviet bohemia. Alone in Moscow with two small children, no income, and a missing husband, Tsvetaeva struggled to feed her daughters (one of whom died of malnutrition in an… Read More

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Yale University Press, 2011. New Book. Paperback. 284 pages. Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life beset by loss and hardship. This volume presents for the first time in English a collection of essays published in the Russian emigre press after Tsvetaeva left Moscow in 1922. Based on diaries she kept from 1917 to 1920, Earthly Signs describes the broad social, economic, and cultural chaos provoked by the Bolshevik Revolution. Events and individuals are seen through the lens of her personal experience-that of a destitute young woman of upper-class background with two small children (one of whom died of starvation), a missing husband, and no means of support other than her poetry. These autobiographical writings, rich sources of information on Tsvetaeva and her literary contemporaries, are also significant for the… Read More

Hardback. 2002. 280pp 6 plates New Haven 2002 Very good copy in very good dust jacket. .

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2002. Edited, translated, & with an Introduction by Jamey Gambrell. Pp. xxxii+250, 6 plates, notes, suggested reading; demy 8vo; orange papered boards, spine lettered in black , the upper board faintly scratched; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased and split, the backstrip slightly soiled and faded; Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2002. First edition. *Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets. 'This volume presents for the first time in English a collection of essays published in the Russian Emigre press after Tsvetaeva left Moscow in 1922. Earthly Signs describes the broad social, economic, and cultural chaos provoked by the Bolshevik Revolution' [wrapper blurb].