Marina Tsvetaeva’s influence on Russian literature spotlighted at the Presidential Library’s video lecture

On October 20, 2022 the Presidential Library hosted a video lecture “Through every heart, through every net…” to mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of Marina Tsvetaeva as part of the Knowledge of Russia project.

"A beggar woman, but with royal manners", a poet of "radiant dreams and victorious tunes", "haughty and confused", "chased", "savage", author of "sluggish and unintelligible verses with exclamation marks in every line", "dissolute", "powerful" - this is how her contemporaries defined Tsvetaeva. A poet of enormous talent, which did not fit either fate or the era, Tsvetaeva caused both rejection and admiration among readers and colleagues.

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of the History of Western European and Russian Literature at the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University Ksenia Yegorova told about the life and creative path of Marina Tsvetaeva, the influence of emigration on the way she wrote.

Her youth passed in the house in Borisoglebsky Lane in Moscow, which now houses Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum. Natalia Shainyan, Candidate of Art History, senior researcher at Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum, showed video lecture participants this period of the poet's life.

The Presidential Library’s video lecture focused on Tsvetaeva's plays, which were unknown for a long time and turned out to be the most "unread" in her oeuvre. “I don’t honor the theater, I don’t reach for the theater”, - wrote Marina Ivanovna. However, the dramatic fabric appeared already in her early poems. Marina Tsvetaeva's theatre, the peculiarities of her dramaturgy were devoted to the performance of the candidate of art history, associate professor of the performing arts department of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts Jamila Kumukova.

“Ever since I can remember, it seemed to me that I want to be loved. Now I know and tell everyone: I don’t need love, I need understanding”, - Tsvetaeva wrote in a letter to Pyotr Yurkevich. The way to "understand" Marina Tsvetaeva, a man of "sparks and abyss", will be told at the Presidential Library’s video lecture.  

The event recording is available on the institution's Rutube-channel.