Amazing woman Anna Akhmatova..a conscientious objector to Stalin, loads of her dearest ones died in the gulags
Her work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate, and remaining in Russia, acting as witness to the atrocities around her. Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism
Extract from White Flock (1917)
We thought: we’re poor, we have nothing,
but when we started losing one after the other
so each day became
remembrance day,
we started composing poems
about God’s great generosity
and — our former riches.
Generally just Being. Nothing in particular, no claims to fame. I like gardening and the sea, nature, art in all forms from poetry to films and everything in between, and being in the company of my family.
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