Anna Akhmatova

(1889 - 1966)

In 1946 a member of Stalin’s Politburo denounced the poet Anna Akhmatova as a “mixture of nun and harlot,” and she was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers.

 

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Voices In Time

1914 | St. Petersburg

A Candle in the Sun

“Tell me how men kiss you, tell me how you kiss.”More

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