Cradle-Mates

This book contains the spiritual testament of Ariadna Efron – recreating the shared world of her parents. Complex and inseparable, despite all separations and hardships. Under one cover, the works of cradle-mates – Marina Tsvetaeva and Sergey Efron – are collected. A unified text of love and fate: letters from different years, Tsvetaeva's poems dedicated to her husband, fragments of prose and notebooks – about him or directly addressed to him, Efron's youthful novel Childhood and his later articles, essays about the Civil War, which he experienced with the White Army from the Don to Crimea, the story Tif, where the constant presence of Marina in his soul is particularly palpable… His trust could be deceived, mine for him remains unchanged, – said Marina Tsvetaeva about her husband. And he realized in his youth who his fiancée was, being the first to say: This is the greatest poetess in the world. Her name is Marina Tsvetaeva.