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Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova

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Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova

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Anna Andreevna Gorenko (Russian: Анна Андреевна Горенко) ; June 23, 1889 - March 5, 1966), pen name Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова), a Russian Ukrainian female poet, one of the representatives of the "Silver Age", known as the "Moon of Russian Poetry" (Pushkin was once known as the "Sun of Russian Poetry"), suffered persecution during the Great Purge and the 1946 Zhdanov Criticism.

Category
Writers
Nationality
russian empire
Born
1889-06-11
Died
1966-03-05
Wikidata
Q80440
Occupations writertranslatorliterary criticpoetScript writer
Aliases AkhmatovaAnna AchmatovaAnna AhmatovaAnna AkhmatovaAnna Andreevna AkhmatovaAnna Andreevna GorenkoAnn AkhmatovaAnna Andreyevna AkhmatovaAnna AkhmatovaAnya GorenkoAkhmatova

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