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“... ruined love affair with Rodzevich, who died in 1988 (after a career with the KGB, according to Viktoria Schweitzer), produced the Poem of the End, an anguished memorial to failed love which no one would attribute to a male consciousness and that not even Akhmatova, the poet laureate of doomed affection, could have equalled. Like a man, and like a ...”

“... capable and dedicated younger Tsvetaeva scholars emerged in the USSR – among them, Lev Mnukhin, Viktoria Schweitzer (who later emigrated to the United States) and Irma Kudrova. An outstandingly gifted scholar and writer, Kudrova published some brilliant essays on Tsvetaeva in Leningrad journals. At some point in the early Eighties, she completed a ...”