Anna Akhmatova RU

1889 June 23 – 1966 March 5
Anna Akhmatova

 

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Full Name
Anna Akhmatova
Born
1889 June 23 Odessa, Russian Empire
Died
1966 March 5 Domodedovo, USSR
Realm
Russian
Languages
Russian
Georgy Adamovich
Alexandre Bachrach
Correspondence 1966
Georgy Adamovich - Alexandre Bachrach (after March 5, 1966)
Georgy Adamovich

 

Roman Grynberg
Georgy Adamovich
Correspondence 1967
Roman Grynberg - Georgy Adamovich (May 1, 1967)
Roman Grynberg
Leonid Rzhevsky. Review of Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
Review 1964
Leonid Rzhevsky. Review of Requiem by Anna Akhmatova

The history of this booklet of verses reminds us, in part, of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago: it also appeared only in the West and was passed over in silence in its homeland. Unlike Pasternak's novel, however, these verses reached the West "without knowledge and agreement of the author...

A New Voice from Russia
David Floyd
Review 1963
A New Voice from Russia
David Floyd

A small booklet, some dozen pages of Russian verse has just been published in Munich. It is “Requiem”* by Anna Akhmatova, and for the first time since Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago,” a work by a Russian writer of acknowledged greatness has appeared in the West before being seen by the Russians...

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