Marina Tsvetaeva Poetry evening with actress Natalia Maeva

Marina Tsvetaeva Poetry evening with actress Natalia Maeva and translator Sasha Dugdale

Pushkin House invites to join a poetry evening devoted to the Russian and Soviet poet Marina Tsvetaeva whose works (and works of the authors she admired) will be read by an acclaimed actress of The Moscow New Drama Theatre Natalia Maeva. The talk with be conducted in Russian and English with the help of a poet, translator and playwright Sasha Dugdale.

Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow. Her father was a professor and founder of the Museum of Fine Arts, and her mother, who died of tuberculosis when Marina was 14, was a concert pianist. At the age of 18 Tsvetaeva published her first collection of poems, Evening Album. During her lifetime she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces; she is considered one of the most renowned poets of 20th-century Russia.

Programme

Марина Цветаева (1892 – 1941)/ Marina Tsvetaeva (1892 – 1941)

«Идешь на меня похожий…» / ‘You walk and look like me…’

Дон Жуан (из цикла) / Don Juan (from the cycle)

«На заре морозной»

«Долго на заре морозной плакала метель…»

«И была у Дон Жуана – шпага…»

«Не самозванка – я пришла домой…» / ‘Not an imposter – I came home…’

«На бренность бедную мою…» / ‘On my poor frailty…’

Поэма конца (1924 год) / Poem of the End (1924)

Поэма воздуха (отрывки) / Poem of the Air (extracts)