This essay-memory is based on real
events and was written during 10 years (1990-1999). Such a serious work was due
to the scale of the personality of Anastasia Tsvetaeva, Russian writer,
thinker, and the sister of a great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva.
Uncomfortable, cold, and slushy Moscow
of March 1990 suddenly turns to a confidante of Destiny. In a tight appartment
on Bolshaya Spasskaya street with a paper Pegasus fasten with pins to the door
the sister of Marina Tsvetaeva meets with future Russian poet and writer Larisa
Gumerov. An alive voice of a Poet and the blessing guesture of her august hand…
This essay-memory is about how this happenned, what this event was filled with,
and how it influenced on the future.
The
essay was published in a literary Russian-language magazine "Greater
Washington" (No. 5-7 (22-24), 1999, and No. 1 (25), 2000). The author
would like to find volunteers to make a literary translation from Russian to
English. Once this will be done the English-speaking visitors of this site will
have an opportunity to read the full text of this essay. Please contact the
author: larisa_3000@hotmail.com.