1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: Heart Radio Greetings, I'm Eves and welcome to This Day 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: in History Class, a show that believes no day in 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 1: history is a slow day. Today is October eighteen. The 5 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: day was October eight Russian poet Marina Spadaieva was born 6 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: in Moscow. Spatieva was a prolific writer and one of 7 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 1: the most notable Russian language poets of the twentieth century. 8 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: On the Julian calendar, which Russia used at the time, 9 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: Spatiova's birthday was September. Her mother, Maria Alexandrovna, was a 10 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: concert pianist. Her father, Ivan Vladimirovitch Speziav, was a professor 11 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: of art history at the University of Moscow. He later 12 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: founded the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art. Marina, her siblings, 13 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 1: and her parents lived a comfortable life. They had servants 14 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: and spent summers in a cottage in Tadusa, Russia. That said, 15 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: her family wasn't perfect. There was tension in her mother 16 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: and father's marriage as they still had feelings for previous loves, 17 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: and her mother wanted her to be a pianist rather 18 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: than pursuing poetry. After Marina's mother got to berculosis in 19 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: nineteen o two. The family moved around Europe in search 20 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: of warmer climates. They lived in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany 21 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: and Crimea to help with her mother's health, but her 22 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: mother died of tuberculosis in nineteen oh six in Tadusa. 23 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: Marina read a lot and learned several languages, and she 24 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: studied literary history at the Sorbonne when she was a teenager. 25 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: In nineteen ten, she self published her first collection of poems, 26 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: called Evening Album. Other poets and critic like Maximilian Volition 27 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: and Nikolay Gomolyov recognized her work, and soon she began 28 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: to mingle with other artists. She married her husband, Sergey 29 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: Yakovlovich Fron in nineteen twelve, and they had three children together. 30 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: Over the course of their relationship, though she was devoted 31 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: to her husband, she had affairs, including ones with poets 32 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: Sophia Parnak and Osip mandel Stam. Marina's affairs and friendships 33 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: inspired many of her poems. But a period of turbulence 34 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 1: in Russia and in Marina's life was on the horizon. 35 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: The Russian Revolution broke out in nineteen seventeen and her 36 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: husband joined the Stars counter revolutionary White Army. She rejected 37 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: the revolution, and many of her poems reflect her support 38 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: of the anti Bolshevik resistance. The Domain of the Swan, 39 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: a poem about the Civil War, was one of the 40 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: works she wrote during this time, though it wasn't published 41 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: until decades later. Marina lost touch with her husband while 42 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: he was in the army, and she stayed with her 43 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: children in Moscow, where they lived in poverty. During the 44 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: famine that took place while she was in Moscow, she 45 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: put her two daughters in a state orphanage, hoping they 46 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 1: would be better taken care of there, but her youngest 47 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: died in the orphanage of malnutrition in nineteen twenty. In 48 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: nineteen two, Marina and her daughter set out for Berlin 49 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: to reunite with Serge, who was in exile. They later 50 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: moved to Prague and then in nineteen to Paris, a 51 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: major center for Russian immigration. That same year, their son 52 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: Georgi was born. Even though she lived in poverty, she 53 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: continued to put out poetry, essays and play. Many Russian 54 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: emigrate writers in Paris criticized Marina for not being anti 55 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: Soviet enough though she did form connections with writers like Ryter, 56 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: Maria Rolca and in A Tescova, she was isolated from 57 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: those immigration circles and Russia. On top of that, her 58 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: husband's politics shifted. She became homestick for Russia and developed 59 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: Soviet sympathies. Eventually he joined the n k v D, 60 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: or the Soviet secret police. In nineteen thirty nine, Marina 61 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: and her son returned to the Soviet Union to meet 62 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: her husband and daughter, who had also gained Soviet sympathies. 63 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: Marina struggled in Soviet Russia and found it hard to 64 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: get work as a writer. Her husband and daughter were 65 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: soon arrested on espionage charges. Her husband was shot and 66 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: killed in nineteen forty one, and her daughter was sent 67 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: to a labor camp. When the Nazis began bombing Moscow, 68 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: Marina and her son were evacuated to Yellabuga, a remote 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: town in the Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic, where she had 70 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: no money or support. She died by suicide in nineteen 71 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: forty one. Marinaz Fadila's work is remembered for being lyrical, 72 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: direct and experimental, and having distinct rhythms. It's also noted 73 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: for its portrayal of women's experiences during those turbulent years 74 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: in Russian history. 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