Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova - the great Russian poet.
She lived through the toughest times in the history of the country.
During the war years she stayed in besieged Leningrad,
worked on the radio
She was always on duty, even during the air raids
she sewed sandbags for bombshelters

recited poems in hospitals
and helped the wounded soldiers

Her first husband, Nikolai Gumilev, was shot by the Cheka.
Her third husband, Nikolai Punin, died in the labor camp
Ahmatova's son
- famous historian Lev Gumilyov -
spent in 10 years in prison

Akhmatova’s poem “Requiem” is dedicated to the victims of Stalin’s terror
«…Foreign skies were not my fate surrounding,
Shelter found I not ’neath alien wings –
I embraced my people’s pain abounding
Here, where they endured its bitter stings.

Akhmatova was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize

She is also known as a translator and scholar of Pushkin's works.
A year before her death, Akhmatova received a doctoral degree from Oxford University.

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