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Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova
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