Reading Notes | Week 13 | Part B

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Anna Akhmatova 
  • She was born in 1889. 
  • She was born in the suburb of the Black Sea port of Odessa and was the daughter of a maritim engineer and an independent women of revolutionary sympathies (565)
  • Akhmatova's interest in larger musical forms that motivated her started during WWII.
  • She married Nikolai Gumilyov in 1910 and although they divorced, his arrest and execution for counterrevolutionary activites in 1921 put Akhmatova's status into question.  
  • She became known as one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century (565)
  • Requiem, is a lyrical cycle, a series of poems written on a them. (567)
  • "Akhmatova blends her individual personal losses- husband, son and friends- to creat a signle focus: the figure of a mother grieving for her condemned son." (567
  • Requiem was actually published without her consent in year 1963 in Munich.It wasn't until 1987 the complete text was published in the Soviet Union. 
  • Her Death, in 1966, signaled the end of an era in modern Russian poetry, for she was the last of the famous "quartet" (567)

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  1. UnknownApril 22, 2018 at 8:58 PM

    Hi Megan!
    Anna Akhmatova was really interesting to read about. She lived such a hard life and her work was great. It is a shame it was hidden away for so long. Her life and the life of her son were so interesting to read about. I thought it was terrible that the government targeted her for her work. Great notes!

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