num_pages: 304
description: Chronicles the final years in the life of one of Russia's most talented poets during the Stalin era, discussing Tsvetaeva's fateful decision to follow her husband, Sergei Efron, back to Moscow from her Paris exile, her arrest for anti-Soviet activity, and descent into a nightmare of official persecution, peer indifference, and World War II that led to her suicide at the age of forty-nine. 17,500 first printing.
language: English
title: The Death Of A Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva
titlecomplete: The Death Of A Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva
genres: Biography, Poetry, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Russian Literature, Russia, History
ratings_count: 35
publisher: Abrams Press