From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in
1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary
life. But this friend of Pasternak and Mandelstam was a poet in a
country where poetry was literally a matter of life and death, as
she found when Mandelstam and her own husband, Gumilyev, were
executed, and her son imprisoned for many years in the Gulag.
Akhmatova's first collection, Evening, appeared in 1912. Rosary
(1914) made her a household name. After the Revolution she went in
and out of favour with the authorities, who sometimes allowed her
to publish, sometimes banned her work. She is now most celebrated
in the West for Poem Without A Hero and Requiem, a sequencemourning
the victims of Stalin's Terror which was only published (and then
outside Russia) in 1963.
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