Anna Akhmatova was one of Russia's greatest 20th century poets who lived from 1889 to 1966. Poet Anna Akhmatova is noted for her precise and clear compositions. Her simple and rhyming verses made her distinct from other contemporary Russian poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Marina Tsvetaeva. 'Evening', 'Rosary', and 'Requiem' are some of her famous works.
Anna Akhmatova Early Years
Anna Akhmatova of Russia was born as Anna Andreyevna Gorenko in 1889 to her father Andrei, a naval engineer, and Inna Stogova, her mother in Bolshoy Fontan of Ukraine. Anna went to Tsarskoe Selo Girls' Gymnasium for her formal schooling, which was followed by a tenure in Saint Petersburg Smolnyi Institute.
Anna Akhmatova continued with her formal education in Kiev's Fundukleevskaia gymnasium and in 1907 got admitted to a law school. After having graduated from Fundukleevskaia, she shifted to Saint Petersburg to study literature. Innokenty Annensky an eminent essayist, poet, and dramatist was one of her teachers in Saint Petersburg.
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Anna Akhmatova's Works
Anna Gorenko started writing poetry when she was 11 years of age under the pseudonym of Anna Akhmatova after her great grandmother Tartar's name. Her first poem was published in 1907 in 'Sirius', a journal published by Gurmilev whom she married in 1910. In 1912 her first collection of poems 'Evening' comes out. The simple, romantic, and intense verses were enthusiastically accepted by the readers.
'Evening' was followed by 'Rosary' in 1914, 'By the Very Sea' in 1915, and 'The White Flock' in 1917. In 1922 she published 'Anno Domini' a collection of poems with religious themes. Between 1935 and 1940 she composed 'Requiem' as a tribute to sufferings of the human race. From the year of 1940 she started composing 'Poem without a Hero' which remained unfinished till her demise.
Anna Akhmatova was awarded the Taormina Prize by the Italian government in 1964. This was followed by an honorary degree awarded to her by Oxford University in 1965. This grand dame of Russian poetry expired in 1966.
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