Marina Tsvetaeva, alongside Anna Akhmatova, is the most significant Russian poetess of the 20th century, and her prose unmistakably reflects her poetic nature. Whether she describes the chaos of the revolutionary and civil war years in her diary prose or evokes lost childhood paradises in her autobiographical stories, the language—associative, lyrical, intense—always takes center stage. The volume gathers texts from different phases of her life: The Moscow Notebooks from 1917-1921 testify to the turmoil of revolution and war. "About Germany" sketches the ideal image of a place of the spirit, which quickly deteriorates during her years of exile. In 1933, amid the hardships of exile, Tsvetaeva begins to affirm her earliest experiences in autobiographical stories: sheltered yet restless early years of life marked by various stages.