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Marina Tsvetaeva

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The Resume

    (October 9, 1892-August 31, 1941)
    Wrote the poetry collections 'Evening Album (1910),' 'The Demesne of the Swans (1921),' 'Separation (1922),' 'Psyche (1922),' 'Craft (1923),' 'After Russia (1928)' and 'Verses to the Czech Republic (1939)'
    Committed suicide by hanging (1941)

Why she might be annoying:

    She chain smoked.
    Many family, friends and associates described her as having an eccentric, contradictory personality.
    She had many obsessive affairs with both men and women outside of her marriage.
    She was reportedly very abusive and resentful of her youngest daughter.
    She was unaware that both her husband and oldest daughter were spies for the Soviet secret police.
    She was ostracized by the Russian literary communities in western Europe and in Russia.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her mother hated her poems and purposely mocked and destroyed many of them.
    She could speak Italian, French, and German.
    Her youngest daughter died of starvation during the famine in Moscow and Marina was devastated, saying: 'God punished me.' (1920).
    She hated communism and fascism and criticized both in her poems.
    Many of her family members and friends were killed, exiled or arrested by the Soviet government.
    She was forced to live in exile in Europe for most of her life.
    She was driven to suicide by the stresses brought on to her by her son and by the Soviets.

Credit: Call me Calvin


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 19 Votes: 15.79% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 62 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 29 Votes: 55.17% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 34 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 73 Votes: 76.71% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 112 Votes: 70.54% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 141 Votes: 52.48% Annoying