"We were wounded with this shot in the stomach."

Marina Tsvetaeva recalls how in her early childhood she saw on the wall of my mother's bedroom a picture depicting Pushkin's duel.

Since then, the great poet has become a part of her life.

Nurse drove Marina along with her sister Asya to walk along the boulevard. "Pushkin's monument was the goal and limit of the walk: from Pushkin's monument - to the monument of Pushkin."

And then she secretly began to read his poems. At the age of six she opened "Eugene Onegin" and was struck by the love of Eugene and Tatiana.

It was by his works that she began to study the history of her native country.

"But the most beloved of the terrible, the most terrible in their native and terrible family were -" Demons. " "The clouds are racing, the clouds are winding - the invisible moon ..." "

It is insanely interesting to hear the opinion of one great poet about another.

Few people, so loved, knew, understood and appreciated Pushkin's work as Marina Tsvetaeva.

"My Pushkin is Pushkin of my childhood."