My Pushkin

 



Joseph Brodsky called Marina Tsvetaeva "the most tragic voice of Russian poetry." The poetess herself wrote that Pushkin "infected her with love." Indeed, for the Russian poetess, the entire life and creative work of the "sun of Russian poetry" were... incredibly important – like air, like light. "My Pushkin" is a work imbued with sincere love, in which Tsvetaeva addresses the profound mark that the poet left in her soul. Along with Tsvetaeva's observant memory, the reader immerses in the enchanting, blissful era of childhood illuminated by Pushkin's genius. As Tsvetaeva herself writes, "whether it is because I, as a small child, wrote so many times with my hand: 'Farewell, free element!' – or without any of that – I have loved and grieved all the things of my life with farewell, not with meeting, severance, not with merging, not for life – but for death...". Reading the notes of the poetess, it seems that Pushkin himself, alive and sincere, stands before us – and it is impossible not to love him with a loyal love. The book features the works "My Pushkin", "To the Sea", "What Was", "Pushkin and Pugachev", "Art in the Light of Conscience", as well as the poetic cycle "Verses to Pushkin" and Marina Tsvetaeva's article "Hero of Labor", dedicated to Valery Bryusov.