Anna Akhmatova
In Our Time
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Anna Akmartova was one of the most famous Russian poets of the 20th century. One of few to survive Stalin's terrors, banned at home that published abroad. She dared not even write down her most subversive erquium and trusting it instead to the memory of her friends until a time after her death when Russians might read it. In Russia, she was treasured for keeping alive the flame of poetry from before the revolution - and for doing it so brilliantly.
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