Anna Akhmatova (Anna Andreevna Gorenko) was born on June 23, 1889 in Odessa, Ukraine and died on March 5, 1966 in St. Petersburg, Russia at age 76.

Short Biography:

Among her works are the cycle Requiem 1963 (written in the 1930s), which deals with the Stalinist terror, and Poem without a hero 1962 (begun 1940).

In the 1920s she published several collections of poetry in the realist style of Mandelshtam, but her lack of sympathy with the post-revolutionary regimes inhibited her writing, and her work was banned 1922-1940 and again from 1946.

From the mid-1950s her work was gradually rehabilitated in the USSR. In 1989 an Akhmatova Museum was opened in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).

Why is Anna Akhmatova famous?

Anna Akhmatova was a famous Russian and Soviet modernist poet

Anna Akhmatova Lists

	1889 births
	1966 deaths
	Eastern Orthodox victims of Soviet repressions
	Russian poets
	Russian World War I poets
	Russian-language poets
	Soviet poets
	Victims of Soviet repressions
	Russian women writers
	Eastern Orthodox Christians from Russia
	Russian Orthodox Christians
	People from Odessa
	Translators to Russian
	Translators from Italian
	Translators from Bengali
	Russian victims of Soviet repressions
	Ukrainian poets
	Russians of Ukrainian descent
	Ukrainian women writers
	Eastern Orthodox Christians from Ukraine
	Ukrainian Orthodox Christians
	Ukrainian victims of Soviet repressions

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Tags: poet, writer, modernist

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Category: Poets  - ( Poets Archive)

Date Added: 08 September '11

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