In Love and Revolution. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova anti-war raw and sometimes uncomfortable

raw and sometimes uncomfortable

this is Russia’s war – against Ukraine

the Soviet Union's war was both considerably longer and more all-encompassing than is sometimes appreciated

sorrel and wild garlic soup and poppyseed babka

leading to violent conflict

In Love and Revolution. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova anti-war raw and sometimes uncomfortableAnna Akhmatova was born near Odesa, Ukraine, in 1889. Christened Anna Gorenko, she adopted her pen name from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo, near St Petersburg and lived most of her life in that city, with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married fellow poet Nikolay Gumilev. Together they