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Efron and Alya were arrested on espionage charges in 1941, Efron was sentenced to death. Alya's fiancé was actually an [[NKVD]] agent who had been assigned to spy on the family. Efron was shot in 1941; Alya served over eight years in prison.<ref name="OCEL"/> Both were exonerated after Stalin's death. In 1941, Tsvetaeva and her son were evacuated to [[Yelabuga]] (Elabuga), while most families of the [[Union of Soviet Writers]] were evacuated to [[Chistopol]]. Tsvetaeva had no means of support in Yelabuga, and on 24 August 1941 she left for Chistopol desperately seeking a job. On 26 August, Marina Tsvetaeva and poet [[Valentin Parnakh]] applied to the Soviet of Literature Fund asking for a job at the LitFund's canteen. Parnakh was accepted as a doorman, while Tsvetaeva's application for a permission to live in Chistopol was turned down and she had to return to Yelabuga on 28 August.
Efron and Alya were arrested on espionage charges in 1941, Efron was sentenced to death. Alya's fiancé was actually an [[NKVD]] agent who had been assigned to spy on the family. Efron was shot in 1941; Alya served over eight years in prison.<ref name="OCEL"/> Both were exonerated after Stalin's death. In 1941, Tsvetaeva and her son were evacuated to [[Yelabuga]] (Elabuga), while most families of the [[Union of Soviet Writers]] were evacuated to [[Chistopol]]. Tsvetaeva had no means of support in Yelabuga, and on 24 August 1941 she left for Chistopol desperately seeking a job. On 26 August, Marina Tsvetaeva and poet [[Valentin Parnakh]] applied to the Soviet of Literature Fund asking for a job at the LitFund's canteen. Parnakh was accepted as a doorman, while Tsvetaeva's application for a permission to live in Chistopol was turned down and she had to return to Yelabuga on 28 August.


On 31 August 1941, Tsvetaeva hung herself in Yelabuga.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=15049|title=Marina Tsvetaeva, Poet of the extreme|last=Cooke|first=Belinda|access-date=21 April 2009|archive-date=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820200941/http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=15049|url-status=dead}}</ref> She left a note for her son Georgy ("Mur"): "Forgive me, but to go on would be worse. I am gravely ill, this is not me anymore. I love you passionately. Do understand that I could not live anymore. Tell Papa and Alya, if you ever see them, that I loved them to the last moment and explain to them that I found myself in a trap."<ref name="Feiler">Feiler, Lily (1994). ''Marina Tsvetaeva: the double beat of Heaven and Hell''. Duke University Press. p264 {{ISBN|978-0-8223-1482-0}}</ref>
On 31 August 1941, Tsvetaeva