WRITER

Marina Tsvetaeva

1892 - 1941

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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə]; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well-known in twentieth-century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Moscow famine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marina Tsvetaeva has received more than 579,326 page views. Her biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Marina Tsvetaeva is the 563rd most popular writer (down from 504th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from Russia (down from 174th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Writer.

Marina Tsvetaeva is most famous for her poem cycle, "Poem of the End."

Memorability Metrics

  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Krysolov
1978
Marina Tsvetaeva
1980
Moĭ Pushkin
1967
Poems
1977
A captive spirit
Fiction
19804 / 5

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 563 out of 7,302. Before her are Mikael Agricola, George Eliot, Dino Buzzati, Ivan Bunin, Georges Perec, and Ausonius. After her are Sidney Sheldon, A. A. Milne, Faxian, Romain Gary, William S. Burroughs, and Al-Zamakhshari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 34. Before her are William P. Murphy, Shirō Ishii, Erwin Panofsky, Amanullah Khan, Erhard Milch, and Arthur Compton. After her are Andrey Yeryomenko, Robert Ritter von Greim, Bruno Schulz, Darius Milhaud, Corneille Heymans, and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1941, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 19. Before her are Robert Delaunay, James George Frazer, Paul Sabatier, El Lissitzky, Ioannis Metaxas, and Hans Spemann. After her are Frederick Banting, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Ernst Udet, Prajadhipok, and Werner Mölders.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 184 out of 3,761. Before her are Felix Yusupov (1887), Sergei Diaghilev (1872), Wladimir Köppen (1846), Roman Abramovich (1966), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), and Ivan Bunin (1870). After her are Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), and Vladimir Propp (1895).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks 22. Before her are Joseph Brodsky (1940), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Sergei Yesenin (1895), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), and Ivan Bunin (1870). After her are Alexander Herzen (1812), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Ivan Krylov (1769), and Arthur Adamov (1908).

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