Marina Tsvetaeva recalled at the Presidential Library’s Poetry Club

On August 17, 2020, the Presidential Library’s Poetry Club will hold a series of online events "I wish I could talk now, Marina!" dedicated to the memory of the outstanding Russian poet of the Silver Age Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva. On this day in 1941, Marina Tsvetaeva arrived with her son on a steamer to Yelabuga. The tragic outcome of the August days is known - on August 31, the poetess committed suicide. In a suicide note to her son, she wrote: “Murlyga! Forgive me, but it would have been worse. I am seriously ill, this is no longer me. I love you madly. Please, understand that I could no longer live. Tell Dad and Ala - if you see - that I loved them until the last minute and explain that I was at a loss".

Commemorative events will start at 12:00. The literary and musical program "More and More Songs..." will be launched on the official page of the Poetry Club in VKontakte. It will be attended by poets, actors and readers, songwriters and musicians from different regions of Russia. Both the works of Marina Tsvetaeva herself and the works of contemporary authors dedicated to the poetess will be presented. For connoisseurs of fine arts, virtual video presentations of sculpture and graphics by Natalia Skripkina and Galina Matlina, dedicated to Marina Tsvetaeva and her poetic works, will take place.

Traditionally, the event participants will be shown a video based on materials from the Presidential Library’s collections. It will focus on memorable places associated with the name of the poetess, as well as abstracts of dissertations available on the institution's portal.

A live broadcast will begin at 15:00 on the Presidential Library's YouTube channel. Listeners will have an online conversation with the head of the Literary Museum and the House of Memory of M. I. Tsvetaeva of the Elabuga State Museum-Reserve Lilia Sagirova on the subject ““I would like to live with you in a small town...”. Memorial complex of M. I. Tsvetaeva in Yelabuga: the Past and the Present".

The second part of the live broadcast will feature the best performances from the literary and musical program "More and More Songs...". In addition to the authors of the Poetry Club, the program will also involve the guests. Olga Vior, poet and songwriter, member of the Writers' Union of Russia, will present her poems dedicated to Marina Tsvetaeva. The singer, poet and composer Elena Frolova, whose songs to the verses of Marina Tsvetaeva (the albums "My Tsvetaeva", "Khvalyn-Kolyvan", "Annunciation Day", etc.) have long deserved the love and recognition of the audience will also perform at the event.