Women who made history
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The Life of a Poet
Te pragroneadlecra anna hmativa led many different lives full of passion and suffering. Her first husband, the poet nikolay gumilov, was executed by the secret soviet police in 19 21. N as the gulag a avila ak thou abo on. I cannot a voic tera elosa eet about tase this is an archive clip of achmatova read in her masterpiece, requium,. More broadly, she wrote it at home in secret, bikme that she was still risking her life. That was when the ones who smiled were the dead. And like a useless appendage, leningrad swung from its
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