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Akhmatova
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Akh·ma·to·va  (k-mät-v), Anna Pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko. 1889-1966.
Russian poet whose work is characterized by personal themes and noted for its lyrical beauty. Banned by the Soviet government from 1946 to 1958, she is considered the greatest Russian woman poet.

Akhmatova (Russian) [axˈmatəvə]
n
(Biographies / Akhmatova, Anna (1889-1966) F, Russian, WRITING: poet) Anna (ˈannə). pseudonym of Anna Gorenko. 1889-1966, Russian poet: noted for her concise and intensely personal lyrics


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LOT'S WIFE by ANNA AKHMATOVA And the just man trailed God's messenger, His huge, light shape devoured the black hill.
Narrated by Nadezhda, Osip's wife; Osip's lover, actress Zinaida Zaitseva-Antonova; Stalin's personal bodyguard; a fellow prisoner; and writers Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, among others, The Stalin Epigram exposes the horrors of Stalinist Russia as it reveals people's fundamental humanity under tyranny.
Poet Anna Akhmatova of Russia received a visit from Berlin in 1946.
 
 
 
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