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Anna Akhmatova [1889-1966] Russian
Rank: 109
Poet (with poems)

Acmeism, Modernism, Silver age, Symbolism


Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.

Death, Courage, Peace, Time



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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. Death, Peace, Time
101
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. Death
102
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. Courage
103
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
104
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
105

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