Marina Tsvetaeva`s Literary Museum is located 200 meters from the small wooden house of the blacksmith Brodelshchikov, where Marina and her son were settled during the evacuation. She passed away in this house on August 31, 1941 and now it houses the Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum. In the Literary Museum you can get acquainted with the work of the great poet of the Silver Age.
The exhibition is dedicated not only to Marina Tsvetaeva, but also to her family. Her father was born into a family of a priest. They lived in the village of Novo-Talitsy, Ivanovo region. Now a Museum of the Tsvetaev Family has been created in this house. Mother Maria Mein was from a family of Polish aristocrats. Marina Tsvetaeva`s family was well-off, so in childhood the young poetess lived surrounded by care and love. She began writing her first poems at the age of six.
A separate exhibition is dedicated to Tarusa. The Tsvetaev family rented a Villa in Tarusa, where they lived every summer for 10 years. Now a Museum of the Tsvetaev Family has also been created in Tarusa. Maximilian Voloshin played a very important role in Marina`s life. At the age of 19 in 1911, Marina decided for the first time to spend the summer not in Tarusa, but on the Black Sea. She went with her sister to Voloshin`s House in Koktebel. There she met Sergei Efron, whom she married in the autumn of the same year.
The most productive stage of Marina Tsvetaeva`s work was living in a Moscow apartment in Borisoglebsky Lane. She lived there from 1914 until her departure for emigration in 1922. At this time she wrote her most famous poems. Many of them have become songs and romances. Now the Tsvetaeva Museum in Moscow is open in this house.
Life in emigration was quite difficult, but she continued to write poems. After returning to Russia in 1938, Marina lived with her husband in the Moscow region, where the Tsvetaeva Museum in Bolshevo is now open. There she was engaged in translating Lermontov`s poems into French. She no longer wrote her poems. Then there was the evacuation to Yelabuga and the tragic death on August 31, 1941. All these stages of life are described in the exposition of the Tsvetaeva Literary Museum in Yelabuga.
