“In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad.”

About Anna Akhmatova

Poet • Russian

Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by her pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a leading Russian poet of the 20th century. She was a prominent figure in the Acmeist movement, which championed clarity and craftsmanship over...