Women who made history
The History Hour
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Y Blagaga, Ahmativa Ridden From Her Poem First Warning
ahmateva lived in saint petersburg for nearly three decades. The communist party described her as a cross between a harlot and a nun. Erra korbova was an art historian who knew the poet in her final years. She first heard about Ahmativa at school, where pupils were warned not to read her.
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