Memorial Day of Marina Tsvetaeva

On August 31 is 75 years from the date of Marina Tsvetaeva's leaving. Yelabuga became the last terrestrial point in her destiny: here in August, 1941 life of the great poet tragically sink. However still for many years her name was under a ban.

For the first time in Yelabuga it sounded in the mid-sixties, and the first Memorial Day of Marina Tsvetaeva was spent in September, 1968. Then teachers and students of the Yelabuga state teacher's institute came to an expected grave of the poet to lay flowers, to read favorite verses, to listen to the story of the Kazan writer R. Mustafin about poetic destiny of Tsvetaeva.