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1892
Born in Moscow to father, an art history professor at Moscow
University and mother of German-Polish descent who was also
a fine pianist
1903-5
Attends boarding schools in Switzerland and Germany, where
mother received treatments for lung problems that eventually
killed her in1906
1909
Travels to Paris and studies at Sorbonne
1910
First collection Evening Album appears, an intimate
work in a lyrical voice that would characterize the majority
of her poetic output. Also showcases her command of syllabatonic
verse and inventiveness in both versification and stanza
structure
1911
Meets Sergei Efron (see left)
1912
Marries Efron
Second Collection, Magic Lantern,
appears
Daughter is born
1913
Publishes From Two Books
1916
Travels from Moscow to Petrograd where she met Kuzmin,
Sologub, Esenin, and
Mandelstam
1917
Efron joins the White Army and she is stranded
1920
Daughter dies of malnutrition
1921
Publishes Mileposts, a watershed work that contains
elements present in nearly all the rest of her poetry cycles:
all the works were dated and arranged chronologically, and
each cycle sustained a certain theme. Thus, the cycles read
like a poetic diary. (see left)
1922
Publishes Mileposts, Book One, Poems to Blok,
and Separation which contained her first longer verse
narrative "On a Red Steed"
Emigrates to Berlin to join Efron
1922-25
Lives in Prague
1923
Craft collection published in Berlin
1925
Son Gregory (Georgii) is born, and the family moves to Paris
(see right)
1928
Publishes After Russia in Paris after which she begins
to dedicate herself to prose, which she writes almost exclusively
for the rest of her life
1932
Writes essays "At in the Light of Conscience" and "The Poet
and Time"
1937
Efron goes to Republican Spain and then returns to the Soviet
Union where he is executed
1941
She returns to Soviet Union where she is ignored, "destitute
and helpless" and commits suicide in the town of Elabuga,
in the Tatar Autonomous Republic
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The poet and her beloved son, "Mur" (George's
nickname)
