Akhmatova had " her first taste of fame ", becoming renowned, not so much for her beauty, as her intense magnetism and allure, attracting the fascinated attention of a great many men, including the great and the good.

The murders had a powerful effect on the Russian intelligentsia, destroying the Acmeist poetry group, and placing a stigma on Akhmatova and her son Lev ( by Gumilev ).

Meetings with Anna Akhmatova in Leningrad in November 1945 and January 1946 had a powerful effect on both of them, and serious repercussions for Akhmatova ( who immortalised the meetings in her poetry ).

" He was no more a member of the group than he had been of the Symbolists, but he was personally associated with a number of them ; in the years 1910-12 he lived in the famous apartment ( called the Tower ) of Vyacheslav Ivanov, who was another formative influence on the Acmeists, and he was a friend of Anna Akhmatova, for whose first book of poetry, Vecher, he wrote a flattering preface.

Some previously banned writers and composers, such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Zoshchenko, among others, were brought back to public life, as the official Soviet censorship policies had changed.

There he published several new collections, Tabernacle and Bonfire, and finally divorced Akhmatova ( August 5, 1918 ), whom he had left for another woman several years prior.

He described their relationship as a warm friendship, but for Akhmatova it was intensely important and inspired over 30 poems, which trace the passage of their affair from her early hopes and dreams to her bitter disappointment at their parting.

' He spent a good deal of time with Akhmatova -- who in those years was given a very wide berth by most of the people who knew her.

Anna Akhmatova with her husband Nikolay Gumilev and son, Lev Gumilev, 1913

She later began an affair with the celebrated Acmeist poet Osip Mandelstam, whose wife, Nadezhda, declared later, in her autobiography that she came to forgive Akhmatova for it in time.

Akhmatova married an art scholar and lifelong friend, Nikolai Punin, whom she stayed with until 1935.

Anna Akhmatova was immensely dignified, with unhurried gestures, a noble head, beautiful, somewhat severe features, and an expression of immense sadness.

Akhmatova joined the Acmeist group of poets in 1910 with poets such as Osip Mandelstam and Sergey Gorodetsky, working in response to the Symbolist school, concurrent with the growth of Imagism in Europe and America.

Akhmatova modelled its principles of writing with clarity, simplicity, and disciplined form.

The poets most often associated with the " Silver Age " are Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak.

In Russia, the movement crystallized as early as 1910 under the name of Acmeism, with Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelshtam as the leading representatives.

Just several months later Riga-based chess grandmaster Mikhail Tal was heard praising the author of " Bolshoy Karetny " and Anna Akhmatova ( in a conversation with Joseph Brodsky ) was quoting Vysotsky's number " I was the soul of a bad company ..." taking it apparently for some brilliant piece of anonymous street folklore.

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.

* Anna Akhmatova: Vor den Fenstern Frost, Berlin 1988 ( with Fritz Mierau )

In Russia, he is associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry as the addressee of many beautiful poems by Anna Akhmatova, including her Tale of the Black Ring.

His mosaic Compassion ( 1952 ) is a portrait of Akhmatova, surrounded by the horrors of war.

* March 5 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet ( b. 1889 )

* June 23 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet ( d. 1966 )

He met the first serious love of his life, Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, in 1910, when he was 26.

Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (; ; – March 5, 1966 ), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (, ), was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.

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.

* June 23-Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet ( died 1966 )

" The 20th century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova recorded Pushkin's admiration for Parny in a poem: " There lay your three-cornered hat, and a dog-eared tome of Parny.

* Akhmatova Book Store is a reference to a Russian poet.

She spent some years translating the poems of Anna Akhmatova from Russian into English ( published as Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova, 1985 ), and she championed translation as an important art at which every poet should try her hand.

The poet Anna Akhmatova, among others, considered the grille to be a pinnacle of art-casting and one of the symbols of St Petersburg.

His daughter, Lydia Chukovskaya, is remembered as a noted writer, memoirist, philologist and lifelong assistant and secretary of the poet Anna Akhmatova.

Additionally, the saint ’ s image bears an uncanny resemblance to that of the poet Anna Akhmatova in her mid-20s.

In 1922 he painted a portrait of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

Russian literature is known for such notable writers as Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Varlam Shalamov.

Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, and Vladimir Nabokov wrote important verse tributes to Blok.

Many famous people, such as Konstantin Stanislavsky, Anton Chekhov, Valery Bryusov, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Levitan, Pavel Tretyakov, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Vladimir Lenin, lived here.

Akhmatova started writing poetry at the age of 11, and published in her late teens, inspired by the poets Nikolay Nekrasov, Jean Racine, Alexander Pushkin, Evgeny Baratynsky and the Symbolists ; however, none of her juvenilia survives.

Whether or not I love him, I do not know, but it seems to me that I do .” She married Gumilev in Kiev in April 1910 ; however, none of Akhmatova ’ s family attended the wedding.

Bayley suggests that her period of pro-Stalinist work may also have saved her own life ; notably however, Akhmatova never acknowledged these pieces in her official corpus.

( 1997 ) Anna Akhmatova: The Stalin Years Journal article by Roberta Reeder ; New England Review, Vol.

In 1916 he wrote a verse play, Gondla, which was published the following year ; set in ninth-century Iceland, torn between its native paganism and Irish Christianity, it is also clearly autobiographical, Gumilev putting much of himself into the hero Gondla ( an Irishman chosen as king but rejected by the jarls, he kills himself to ensure the triumph of Christianity ) and basing Gondla's wild bride Lera on Gumilev's wife Akhmatova.