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Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova

Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova

Feinstein, Elaine

Paperback

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ISBN10: 1400033780
ISBN13: 9781400033782
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 10 2007
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.28 Depth: 7.92
Language: English
In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material-including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family-to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.Anna Akhmatova rose to fame in the years before World War I, but she would pay a heavy price for the political and personal passions that informed her brilliant poetry. In Anna of All the Russias we see Akhmatova's work banned from 1925 until 1940 and again after World War II. We see her steadfast opposition to Stalin, even while her son was held in the Gulag. We see her abiding loyalty to such friends as Mandelstam, Shostakovich, and Pasternak as they faced Stalinist oppression. And we see how, through everything, Akhmatova continued to write, her poetry giving voice to the Russian people by whom she was, and still is, deeply loved.

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