Анна Ахматова
- Anna Achmatowa
- Анна Андреевна Ахматова
- Anna Andrejewna Achmatowa
- Anna Akhmatova
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- Ахматова, Анна
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Date of birth
- 1889-06-23
- Place of birth
- Russia
- Date of death
- 1966-03-05
- Place of death
- Soviet Union
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Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1889 – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian poet, one of the most significant of the 20th century. She reappeared as a voice of Russian poetry during World War II. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and 1966.
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 style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. The strong and clear leading female voice struck a new chord in Russian poetry. Her writing can be said to fall into two periods – the early work (1912–25) and her later work (from around 1936 until her death), divided by a decade of reduced literary output. Her work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities, and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate and remaining in the Soviet Union, acting as witness to the events around her. Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism.
Primary sources of information about Akhmatova's life are relatively scant, as war, revolution and the Soviet regime caused much of the written record to be destroyed. For long periods she was in official disfavour and many of those who were close to her died in the aftermath of the revolution. Akhmatova's first husband, Nikolay Gumilyov, was executed by the Soviet secret police, and her son Lev Gumilyov and her common-law husband Nikolay Punin spent many years in the Gulag, where Punin died.
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One of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century.
Last modified: 2020-10-18 (revision #34553)
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- Анна Ахматова has a dedication in Wahrlich (für Anna Achmatowa)
- Анна Ахматова is the subject of Die Zeit der Achmatowa: Lyrik nach der Oktoberrevolution
- Анна Ахматова wrote 2. August 1914
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