Russian Poet Anna Akhmatova
I have no idea whatever came over me the other day. I was thinking back to high school and college, and the 
kinds of literature I liked. As a side note, I took Russian, and at the time, spoke it fairly fluently. Because of that I developed a fondness for Russian literature. And that led me to reading more about Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
Akhmatova grew up during a very difficult time in Russia’s history. She learned on a close and personal level, the cost writers sometimes pay when they write within an oppressed society. Her son was imprisioned in 1938, in an attempt to silence her popular voice. He was not released until 1956.
Her longest and possibly most profound work was written during that time. “Requiem,” was penned by Akhmatova and was a way of recording life under the rule of Stalin.
A Collection of Poems by Anna Akhmatova – Online and free to read
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I wish I could understand Russian. Just by the looks of Anna’s experiences, I could say that her literary pieces are really filled with life and emotion. I believe she is such a strong and determined woman too.
Yes, she definitely was. She was an icon of what it was to grow up in an ever changing Russia. Her work is often dark and depressing, but always brutally honest.