Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem ( 1935 – 40 ), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror.

Hayward, in an introduction to a book of Akhmatova's poetry, writes that the execution placed a stigma on Anna and her son with Nikolai, Lev.

During what she termed " The Vegetarian Years ", Akhmatova's work was unofficially banned by a party resolution of 1925 and she found it hard to publish, though she didn't stop writing poetry.

Although officially stifled, Akhmatova's work continued to circulate in secret ( samizdat ), her work hidden, passed and read in the gulags.

In 1988, to celebrate what would have been Akhmatova's 100th birthday, the University of Harvard held an international conference on her life and work.

Glebova-Sudeikina is the principal character and addressee of Akhmatova's longest work, " The Poem Without Hero " ( 1940 – 65 ).

Primary sources of information about Akhmatova's life are relatively scant, as war, revolution and the totalitarian regime caused much of the written record to be destroyed.

Akhmatova's first husband, Nikolai Gumilev was executed by the Soviet secret police, and her son Lev Gumilev and her third husband Nikolay Punin spent many years in the Gulag, were Punin died.

Akhmatova's father did not want to see any verses printed under his " respectable " name, so she chose to adopt her grandmother's distinctly Tatar surname ' Akhmatova ' as a pen name.

Akhmatova's son, Lev, was born in 1912, and would go on to become a renowned Neo-Eurasianist historian.

At the height of Akhmatova's fame, in 1918, she divorced her husband and that same year, though many of her friends considered it a mistake, Akhmatova married prominent Assyriologist and poet Vladimir Shilejko.

In 1921, Akhmatova's former husband Nikolay Gumilyov was prosecuted for his alleged role in a monarchist anti-Bolshevik conspiracy and on 25 August was shot along with 61 others.

From a new Marxist perspective, Akhmatova's poetry was deemed to represent an introspective " bourgeois aesthetic ", reflecting only trivial " female " preoccupations, not in keeping with these new revolutionary politics of the time.

Akhmatova's close friend and chronicler Lydia Chukovskaya described how writers working to keep poetic messages alive used various strategies.

Akhmatova's son Lev was arrested again at the end of 1949 and sentenced to 10 years in a Siberian prison camp.

Akhmatova's stature among Soviet poets was slowly conceded by party officials, her name no longer cited in only scathing contexts and she was readmitted to Union of Writers in 1951, being fully recognised again following Stalin's death in 1953.

Akhmatova's status was confirmed by 1958, with the publication of Stikhotvoreniya ( Poems ) and then Stikhotvoreniya 1909 – 1960 ( Poems: 1909 – 1960 ) in 1961.

" Volkov compares this movement's juxtaposition of revolutionary songs ( notably the Varshavianska song ) to a cinematic montage, while quoting Anna Akhmatova's description of it as " white birds against a black sky.

Anrep was also friendly with Nikolay Gumilyov, an outstanding poet and Akhmatova's husband, and Nikolay Nedobrovo, a talented critic, two prominent figures of 1910s in Saint Petersburg.

1 ( also known as " A Russian Requiem "), and " At the Reading of a Psalm " ( op.

Other 2007 premieres included Symphony No. 2 " Requiem for a Poet " by Hannover's NDR Radio Philharmonic, as well as A Russian Requiem ( on Russian Orthodox sacred texts and poetry by Alexander Pushkin, Gavrila Derzhavin, Mikhail Lermontov, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Viktor Sosnora and Irina Ratushinskaya ) by the Bremen Philharmonic with the Latvian National Choir and the Estonian Opera Boys Choir.

Predator: Requiem ( 2007 ), and finally in Ridley Scott's 2012 film Prometheus.

At the start of the series, Skinner was unfriendly towards Mulder because of his belief in the extraterrestrial, while throughout the series run Skinner has moved on to respect and agree with Mulder's idea, which is finally proven in " Requiem ", when he saw an Alien spacecraft.

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

The device has also appeared in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Klingon practice of discommendation ; as a threat in Ancient Greek and Persian culture in Frank Miller's 1998 comic book series 300 and its 2007 film adaptation ; and in the 2004 role playing game Vampire the Requiem.

In 2000, she turned down Requiem for a Dream and appeared in The Yards.

That same year, her debut in the grands concerts began when she appeared at the Concerts du Conservatoire followed by performances in Gabriel Fauré's La Naissance de Vénus and Camille Saint-Saëns ' Messe de Requiem.

* Screen and stage legend Laurence Olivier appeared in his last filmed role before his death in 1989 as an old soldier in War Requiem

Head appeared with Baxter in a cameo role in Requiem For A Falling Star, a 1973 Columbo episode.

She also appeared in such films as East of Eden ( also 1955 ), with James Dean ( with whom she became close friends ), Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1962 ), with Paul Newman in the private-detective film Harper ( 1966 ), and Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ).

Father and son appeared in three productions, the first of which was the 1956 Playhouse 90 broadcast of Rod Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Booke appeared in two early episodes of M * A * S * H, as General Barker in " Requiem For A Lightweight " and " Chief Surgeon Who?

The Gensomaden Saiyuki: Requiem movie appeared in theaters in Japan in 2001.

Notkoff performed violin on the song " Running Dry " ( Requiem for the Rockets ), which appeared on Neil Young's " Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere ".

Though Parker's central focus is free improvisation, he has also occasionally appeared in more conventional jazz contexts, such as Charlie Watts's big band and Kenny Wheeler's ensembles, and participated in Gavin Bryars's recording After the Requiem, performing the composition " Alaric I or II " as part of a saxophone quartet.

At the same time he has appeared in numerous independent films including the critically acclaimed Requiem for a Dream, playing the role of Big Tim.

Ed Wynn encouraged his son to become an actor, and the two appeared together in the original Playhouse 90 television production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight.

He also appeared frequently in concert, particularly in the Bach Passions and Brahms ' A German Requiem.

In 1958 she married the director Alvin Rakoff, having the previous year appeared in his BBC adaptation of Rod Serling's American television play Requiem for a Heavyweight.

The Symphonic Choir also appeared with the Dresden Staatskapelle in performances of Brahms ' Ein deutsches Requiem in Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and New York City's Avery Fisher Hall.

The second, The Pale Criminal, appeared in 1990 and the third, A German Requiem in 1991.

Burstyn and Margolis appeared in Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, and the director wrote into the script roles for both of them.