Author : Elaine Feinstein
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Anna of All the Russias - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anna of All the Russias write by Elaine Feinstein. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Anna of All the Russias available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material–including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family–to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.Anna Akhmatova rose to fame in the years before World War I, but she would pay a heavy price for the political and personal passions that informed her brilliant poetry. In Anna of All the Russias we see Akhmatova's work banned from 1925 until 1940 and again after World War II. We see her steadfast opposition to Stalin, even while her son was held in the Gulag. We see her abiding loyalty to such friends as Mandelstam, Shostakovich, and Pasternak as they faced Stalinist oppression. And we see how, through everything, Akhmatova continued to write, her poetry giving voice to the Russian people by whom she was, and still is, deeply loved.