Anna Akhmatova

Anno Domini MCMXXI

Collection reflecting on historical change and personal reckoning in post-revolutionary Russia

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Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova

Russian poet who stood as a witness to the Stalinist terror in her Requiem sequence. Her voice combined classical clarity with personal grief to create the most morally important Russian poetry of the century.

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