After Russia

Boris Pasternak is both the presiding spirit and the addressee of specific poems in After Russia Marina Tsvetaeva’s last collection published in Paris 13 years before she died. The two poets engaged in an impassioned correspondence which offers crucial insights into the background and meaning of certain items. If a group of remarkably tender poems concerns the emigré critic Alexander Bakhrakh remarkably little space is devoted to Tsvetaeva’s cataclysmic affair with her husband’s friend Konstanti...See More