Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) began her career as a delicate, lyrical love poet but is now remembered above all for her Requiem, a poem cyclein memory of the hundreds of thousands of women who in 1937, like Akhmatova herself, spent long hours waiting inqueuesoutsideprisons, trying to deliver parcels to loved ones who had been arrested during Stalin’s purges.
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