Marija Aleksandrowna Meyn

Marija Meyn

Marija Alexandrowna Meyn ( Russian Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Ме́йн ; * 1868 ; † 1906 in Tarussa ) was a Russian pianist .

Life

Marija Meyn was the daughter of the German-Baltic civil servant and publicist Alexander Danilowitsch Meyn (1836-1899) and Marija Lukinitschna Bernazkaja (1840-1868), who came from a Polish aristocratic family, who died three weeks after the daughter's birth.

Marija Meyn received aesthetic education at home and learned music and painting . She was a talented pianist and dreamed of performing in concerts. However, her father forbade her to pursue a career as a professional musician. She studied music with Nadezhda Muromzewa, Nikolai Rubinstein's favorite pupil , and painting with the painter Michail Klodt in Saint Petersburg .

In 1891 Marija Meyn married the widowed classical philologist Ivan Tsvetaev , with whom she had two daughters, the poet Marina Tsvetaeva and the writer Anastasija Tsvetaeva . For many years she was her husband's most important helper in building the Pushkin Museum in Moscow . She excelled on the piano and on the guitar , wrote Russian and German poems and painted.

In 1902 Marija was diagnosed with tuberculosis , so the family traveled to Italy for medical treatment . In 1904 she and her family sought healing in Horben , Freiburg and St. Blasien . In 1905 they returned to Russia and lived in Yalta in the Crimea . In 1906 Marija died in Tarussa and was buried in Moscow.

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• Claudia Roth Pierpont : Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
• Ariadna Efron , Diane Nemec Ignashev: No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva's Daughter . Northwestern University Press 2009

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Russia: Meyn Alexander Danilowitsch ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian, accessed on September 4, 2015)
2. ↑ Adolf Schmid Marina Zwetajw 1892-1941, Freiburg 1992