Crushing of fate

Maria Belkin met Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, who returned from emigration, in 1940. Tsvetaeva and her son Mur were frequent guests of Maria Belkina and her husband Anatoly Tarasenkova, a well -known critic and bibliophile. It was in their house that she kept her archive at a terrible time. Years later, Ariadna Efron came to Maria Belkina - from their conversations, memories, analysis of archives when publishing the posthumous collection of Tsvetaeva and this book was born.
"crossing of fate" is not memoirs and not a novel from Tsvetaeva’s life, not a study or documentary narrative - this is a bright and very personal story to Maria Belkina about her time, about an attempt by Marina Ivanovna, her family and children to survive in impossible circumstances.
Natalia Gromova