Thesis Map: Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova were two of Russia's greatest lyric poets, but the influences of their writing, their lewd love affairs, and how their country perceived them made them very different people.

For years, Russian women have been regarded as incapable of producing great literary works of art.

Such dismissive views of women's writing recur again and again in Russian history, their recurrence being partly explained by the extreme reverence with which educated Russian's regard to philosophical and aesthetic views of the past (Kelly 3).

Yet, two powerful women, Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova, forced Russia to take note of the skill of women writers. Along with other Russian women writers, they helped to pave the way for future women writers. Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova were two of the modern Russia's greatest lyric poets (Dybka), but the influences of their writing, their lewd love affairs, and how their country perceived them made them very different people.

Marina Tsvetaeva was recognized as an excellent poet when she was in her teens (Karlinsky 176). The meaning of her early works were derived form common family, friends, and life problems (175

The relationships Tsvetaeva shared with significant others were not customary. As well as her marriage to Sergei Efron, Tsvetaeva had at least one extramarital affair with Sophia Parnok, another esteemed writer (Is Tsvetaeva a "Lesbian Poet"). Her homosexual relationship with Parnok earned her the nickname "Lesbian Poet" (Is Tsv...). However, Tsvetaeva was not strictly a lesbian, she was bisexual (Is Tsv...).

They took the hive, and took the haystack

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)