The volume of Marina Tsvetaeva’s prose legacy is quite extensive and diverse—there are portraits, memoirs, essays, sketches… But no matter what genre these prose pieces were written in, they are interesting above all because they are about Marina Tsvetaeva herself—her character and preferences, her sympathies, about love and companionship. Just as in Marina Tsvetaeva’s piercing poetry, in her prose this single, uniquely truthful and alive voice is heard—the voice of the great poet.