Anna Akhmatova (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Anna Akhmatova (ak-MAH-tuh-vuh) was born Anna Andreyevna Gorenko on the Black Sea coast not far from the port city of Odessa. Her father, a retired naval engineer, soon resettled the family in the town of Tsarskoe Seko, a suburb of St. Petersburg where the Imperial Summer Palace was located. Even though her parents’ household had virtually no books, Anna had read Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine and had written her first poems by the age of thirteen.
Around Christmas, 1903, Anna met another teenage poet, Nikolay Gumilyov, who fell passionately in love with her; for the...
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