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TSVETAEVA, MARINA IVANOVNA. 1892-1941.

1. Razluka [Separation.] Moscow and Berlin: Gelikon, 1922. 8vo. 38 pp. Original gray papered boards affixed with title label. Boards rubbed and soiled; lacking spine.
2. Stikhi k Bloku [Poems for Blok.] Berlin: Ogonky, 1922. 24mo. 47 pp. Original decorated cream wrappers designed by Aleksandr Arishtam. Worn and water stained wrappers with a pin hole through the lower left of the book. One of 300 copies.
3. Tsar-Devitsa. Poema-skazka [The Tsar Maiden. Fairy Tale Poem.] Petersburg and Berlin: Epokha, 1922.
8vo. 159 pp. Contemporary floral cloth with the original decorated wrappers designed by Ludmila Evgenieva Chirikova(-Shnitnikova) bound in. Wrappers soiled and worn.
Together, 3 volumes.

Marina Tsvetaeva was widely admired for her innovative poetry and considered one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th Century. Pasternak, who fell in love with her, wrote Rilke that she was "a born poet, a great talent ... who writes in a way that none of us in the USSR now writes." She was a model for Lara in Doctor Zhivago. She left Russia with her daughter in 1922 to join her estranged husband in Berlin and they eventually settled in Paris, but the émigré community never entirely embraced her work; it did not help that her husband was a Soviet spy. Fearful of the rise of Fascism, she and her husband voluntarily returned to the USSR in 1939. The Russian literary community ostracized her for having lived so long abroad and she hanged herself.

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