Anna Akhmatova (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Roberta Reeder
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1889-1966
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Vladimir Shileiko, Lev Gumilyov, Nikolay Punin, Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Joseph Brodsky
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Love or romance, World War II, Poetry or poets, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Russia
From an early age, Anna Akhmatova seemed destined to live a remarkable life. Born Anna Andreyevna Gorenko on June 23, 1889, she was fascinated by poetry and began to write at the age of seven. Most of her childhood was spent in Tsarskoye Selo (czar’s village), which later became a symbol of the aristocratic lifestyle of the prerevolutionary era. She was brought up to prize education and aesthetics, to be a proper child of the aristocracy, but even as a child she learned to keep her own counsel, never hesitating to flout convention when she believed it was in her own best interest to...
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