Anna Akhmatova War and Revolution But Akhmatova and her friends could not ignore the changes that were taking place in Russian society. Akhmatova's parents separated in , and she moved with her mother and siblings to live in the Crimea. Akhmatova loved French culture and poetry, but it was the architecture of northern Italy that left the most lasting impression. This protected her and her friends, who passed the long poem to one another under threat of search and arrest.
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko[Notes 1] (23 June&#;[O.S. 11 June]&#; – 5 March ), better known by the pen nameAnna Akhmatova,[Notes 2] was a Russian poet. In she was on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize,[2]
Nikolay Gumilyov was his husband.
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Akhmatova, Anna, Trans.Anna akhmatova biography I was not worthy of it. Toggle the table of contents. Her view of emigration is reflected in her poem from Anno Domini, "I am not one of those who left the land. This amounted to a death sentence by starvation, since only union members could get food ration cards.
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