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Akhmatova
“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”

Anna Akhmatova was one of the most prominent Russian poets of the twentieth century. She was born near Odessa on June 23, 1889, into an aristocratic family. After her parents divorced in 1905, she remained with her mother. ...

Akhmatova