1922 portrait of Anna Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, located in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; Public Domain I first discovered Anna Akhmatova’s poetry when I was living in St.

Singer Iris Dement's new album is based on the work of the late Anna Akhmatova, whose spare, insightful lines addressed the ambiguities of love... An Unexpected Revival For A Beloved Russian Poet ...

Parvin Salajeqeh, professor, poet, and critic, mentioned that the main feature of Akhmatova’s poetic skill was her uncomplicated depiction of the 20th century. “The themes of Akhmatova’s works were ...

Many lines of poetry have burned the past century's atrocities into our memory. But perhaps the most devastating, and the most gorgeous, are those in Anna Akhmatova's ...

David Brooks has a lovely and, I think, important column today about a magical night ages ago, in which the philosopher Isaiah Berlin stayed up all night talking with the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, ...

How far would you go to speak your truth? The Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova went up against Joseph Stalin himself. She refused the secret services' pressure to turn her mystical poetry into state ...

Memory of Sun Memory of sun seeps from the heart. Grass grows yellower. Faintly if at all the early snowflakes Hover, hover. Water becoming ice is slowing in The narrow channels. Nothing at all will ...