Anna Akhmatova (Russian and Ukrainian: А́нна Ахма́това; June 23 [O.S. June 11] 1889 – March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreëvna Gorenko (Russian: А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко; Ukrainian: Га́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко), a Russian/Soviet poet credited with a large influence on Russian poetry.
Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terro...
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Anna Akhmatova (Russian and Ukrainian: А́нна Ахма́това; June 23 [O.S. June 11] 1889 – March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreëvna Gorenko (Russian: А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко; Ukrainian: Га́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко), a Russian/Soviet poet credited with a large influence on Russian poetry.
Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism. She has been widely translated into many languages and is one of the best-known Russian poets of 20th century.
Akhmatova was born at Bolshoy Fontan in Odessa to Andrey Antonovich Gorenko and Inna Erazmovna Stogova. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in 1905. She was educated in Tsarskoe Selo (where she first met her future husband, Nikolay...
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