Efron, George Sergeevich

He was born on February 1, 1925 in the village of Vshenory , near Prague ^[1] , in the family of Sergei Efron and the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva , who were in exile. For them, he was a welcome and beloved child ^[2] . On October 31, 1925, Tsvetaeva left Prague with his daughter Aleia and left her husband there, who did not want to leave there. They moved to Paris, at the invitation of friend Tsvetaeva and admirer of her talent Olga Chernova.

In France, George Efron formed as a person. This country became his air, he organically absorbed its culture and no longer imagined himself outside this space. He was equally fluent in French and Russian, he studied German, he was able to read and write from the age of six, and by the age of ten he had read a lot of what his peers knew by sixteen. He was brought up on the highest examples of world culture, was well versed in politics, art, social life ^[3] . Nevertheless, color scientists characterize him as a teenager spoiled and selfish with undoubted talent. Moore - as George was called by loved ones - grew up in an atmosphere of emigrant poverty and maternal love. And then he returned to Russia with his mother.

At first, the poet’s husband returned to the USSR with their daughter Ariadna, following them on June 18, 1939, Tsvetaeva with 14-year-old George ^[3] . Almost immediately, their family was repressed, except for Moore and his mother. The role of George in the suicide of Tsvetaeva in 1941 in Yelabug is still not quite clear, but most of the poet's biographers agree that she had some place.

After the death of his mother, George left the Chistopol boarding school, where he studied, and moved to Moscow. October 12, 1941, in connection with the advance of the German army, evacuation began in Moscow. Efron was sent to Central Asia . There, he quickly spent his last money, waited for transfers from his sisters, went hungry, borrowed, stole, was under investigation ... When he once again returned to Moscow, he entered the Literary Institute . However, he did not learn long: he was soon drafted into the army.

At first he served in the labor army, then in regular units. He fought on the 1st Belorussian and 1st Baltic Fronts ^[1] . July 7, 1944 was seriously wounded in a battle near Druyka and sent to a field medical battalion ^[2] . Whether he died the same day or later, in the medical battalion itself or on the way to it, is unknown.

George Efron was buried in the cemetery of the village of Strunevshchino , located between the villages of Strunevshchino and Druyka. Subsequently, his remains were reburied in the mass grave of the city of Braslav ( Vitebsk region , Belarus ).

Georgy Efron is the author of diaries that contain invaluable information about the last years of Marina Tsvetaeva’s life, as well as about the time of their family’s stay in France, which Georgy, being a young man beyond his years, could well remember. The characteristics of people from the circle of “defectors” with whom they spoke undoubtedly provide important material to historians who are involved in this subject. The amount of knowledge about the father’s activities, which the teenage son possessed, suggests that Tsvetaeva knew no less about her, which can largely explain the emotional crisis and periods of complete creative emptiness characteristic of the poetess in the 1930s. But not even this side of the diaries is the main one. The author-hero Georgy Efron is interesting primarily as a witness to the times and is interesting exclusively exclusively ^[4] .

• Efron G. Letters. - M.: House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva; Bolshevo: Museum of M.I. Tsvetaeva, 2002.

• Efron George Sergeevich . Graves of celebrities.
• George Efron: short life and bright fate of the son of Marina Tsvetaeva . Culturology.RF.
• Life of Marina Tsvetaeva - presentation . MyShared