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Стихотворения и поэмы
Sudba byla zhestoka k A. A. Akhmatovoi (1889 - 1966), i terpkii privkus gorechi i tragizma dopolniaet stroguiu izyskannost i garmonichnost ee poeticheskikh strok. Marina Tcvetaeva nazyvala Annu Akhmatovu "Annoi vseia Rusi", mozhet byt, i potomu chto vpervye v ee poezii zhenskii golos zazvuchal tak pronzitelno i osoznanno. V knigu voshli luchshie stikhotvoreniia odnoi iz samykh znachitelnykh i odarennykh figur russkoi poezii KhKh poeticheskie tcikly "Vecher", "Chetki", "Belaia staia", "Podorozhnik", poemy, sredi kotorykh potriasshii mir "Rekviem".
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First published January 1, 1989
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Anna Akhmatova
429 books955 followersalso known as: Анна Ахматова
Personal themes characterize lyrical beauty of noted work of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko; the Soviet government banned her books between 1946 and 1958.
People credit this modernist of the most acclaimed writers in the canon.
Her writing ranges from short lyrics to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism. She has been widely translated into many languages, and is one of the best-known Russian poets of 20th century.
In 1910, she married the poet, Nikolay Gumilyov, who very soon left her for lion hunting in Africa, the battlefields of World War I, and the society of Parisian grisettes. Her husband did not take her poems seriously, and was shocked when Alexander Blok declared to him that he preferred her poems to his. Their son, Lev, born in 1912, was to become a famous Neo-Eurasianist historian.
Nikolay Gumilyov was executed in 1921 for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova then married a prominent Assyriologist Vladimir Shilejko, and then an art scholar, Nikolay Punin, who died in the Stalinist Gulag camps. After that, she spurned several proposals from the married poet, Boris Pasternak.
After 1922, Akhmatova was condemned as a bourgeois element, and from 1925 to 1940, her poetry was banned from publication. She earned her living by translating Leopardi and publishing essays, including some brilliant essays on Pushkin, in scholarly periodicals. All of her friends either emigrated or were repressed.
Her son spent his youth in Stalinist gulags, and she even resorted to publishing several poems in praise of Stalin to secure his release. Their relations remained strained, however. Akhmatova died at the age of 76 in St. Peterburg. She was interred at Komarovo Cemetery.
There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the apartment where she lived with Nikolai Punin at the garden wing of the Fountain House (more properly known as the Sheremetev Palace) on the Fontanka Embankment, where Akhmatova lived from the mid 1920s until 1952.
Personal themes characterize lyrical beauty of noted work of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko; the Soviet government banned her books between 1946 and 1958.
People credit this modernist of the most acclaimed writers in the canon.
Her writing ranges from short lyrics to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism. She has been widely translated into many languages, and is one of the best-known Russian poets of 20th century.
In 1910, she married the poet, Nikolay Gumilyov, who very soon left her for lion hunting in Africa, the battlefields of World War I, and the society of Parisian grisettes. Her husband did not take her poems seriously, and was shocked when Alexander Blok declared to him that he preferred her poems to his. Their son, Lev, born in 1912, was to become a famous Neo-Eurasianist historian.
Nikolay Gumilyov was executed in 1921 for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova then married a prominent Assyriologist Vladimir Shilejko, and then an art scholar, Nikolay Punin, who died in the Stalinist Gulag camps. After that, she spurned several proposals from the married poet, Boris Pasternak.
After 1922, Akhmatova was condemned as a bourgeois element, and from 1925 to 1940, her poetry was banned from publication. She earned her living by translating Leopardi and publishing essays, including some brilliant essays on Pushkin, in scholarly periodicals. All of her friends either emigrated or were repressed.
Her son spent his youth in Stalinist gulags, and she even resorted to publishing several poems in praise of Stalin to secure his release. Their relations remained strained, however. Akhmatova died at the age of 76 in St. Peterburg. She was interred at Komarovo Cemetery.
There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the apartment where she lived with Nikolai Punin at the garden wing of the Fountain House (more properly known as the Sheremetev Palace) on the Fontanka Embankment, where Akhmatova lived from the mid 1920s until 1952.
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October 6, 2012
This is a collection of all poems that Anna make during her live period beside some selections that she lately before her death. It is a nice feeling to have such a book at your home and feel the touch of the Russian life through this book and through the point of view of Anna Akhmatova.
May 19, 2011
This was the first book of AA's poems I attempted to read in the original. Sadly, it doesn't contain any of my favorite Akhmatova works.
April 8, 2013
excellent selection.
and, of course, the poetry that is hard to compare to anything.
whatever was i thinking 20 years ago when i did not like Akhmatova's writing...
and, of course, the poetry that is hard to compare to anything.
whatever was i thinking 20 years ago when i did not like Akhmatova's writing...
September 20, 2021
Как всегда, красивые работы. Поэтическая сокровищница.
January 19, 2021
С умом составленный сборник Ахматовой - стихи, написанные до российской катастрофы и после. По прочтении очевидным становится место поэтессы в истории русской поэзии - голос матерей, сестёр, жён репрессированной страны.
Россия - страна женского рода, и именно женщина-поэтесса должна была описать кошмар уничтожения и насилия над людьми родины.
Процесс надругательства над Россией продолжается, вот только поэтического голоса, описывающего апокалипсис уже нет.
Россия - страна женского рода, и именно женщина-поэтесса должна была описать кошмар уничтожения и насилия над людьми родины.
Процесс надругательства над Россией продолжается, вот только поэтического голоса, описывающего апокалипсис уже нет.
March 26, 2020
Красиво?
Красиво.
В детстве этого было достаточно, а сейчас тексты без самоиронии права на существование не имеют. У Ахматовой ее немного, но она есть.
Красиво.
В детстве этого было достаточно, а сейчас тексты без самоиронии права на существование не имеют. У Ахматовой ее немного, но она есть.
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