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Events on Sunday 31 August 1941 1
1892 – 1941Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)Died 31 August 1941, aged 48Marina Tsvetaeva was one of the major Russian poets of the twentieth century. After returning from emigration she was isolated and destitute, and she took her own life in Yelabuga after being evacuated there.