Apr 15, 2015 · A century ago, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova bewitched Paris – and Amedeo Modigliani in particular. Lucy Davies traces the profound effect their affair had on the artist’s work

Early life and family. Akhmatova was born at Bolshoy Fontan, near the Black Sea port of Odessa.Her man, Andrey Antonovich Gorenko, a naval engineer, and her mother, Inna Erazmovna Stogova, were both descended from the Russian nobility.She wrote:

Finding Anna Akhmatova. I was 20 when I found Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1888–1966). I don’t entirely remember how the finding happened—I fell in love with many writers in those days—but I do know that I became obsessed with the way Akhmatova captured conflicting emotions. Loving someone to the point of pain.

Anna Akhmatova is the literary pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko. Her first husband was Gumilev, and she too became one of the leading Acmeist poets. Her second book of poems, Beads (1914), brought her fame. Her earlier manner, intimate and colloquial, gradually gave way to a more classical severity, apparent in her volumes The Whte Flock (1917) and Anno Domini MCMXXI (1922).

Anna Akhmatova (June 23, 1889 — March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader, heart, and soul of the Saint Petersburg tradition of Russian poetry for half a century.

Anna Akhmatova is regarded as one of the greatest Russian poets. Besides poetry, which constitutes the lion’s share of her literary legacy, she wrote prose—primarily memoirs, autobiographical pieces, and literary scholarship, including her outstanding essays on Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin.

Anna Akhmatova: Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet recognized at her death as the greatest woman poet in Russian literature. Akhmatova began writing verse at age 11 and at 21 joined a group of St. Petersburg poets, the Acmeists, whose leader, Nikolay Gumilyov, she married in 1910. They soon traveled to Paris, immersing

Anna Akhmatova (June 23, 1889 — March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader, heart, and soul of the Saint Petersburg tradition of Russian poetry for half a century.

The executions had a powerful effect on the Russian intelligentsia, destroying the acmeist poetry group, and placing a stigma on Akhmatova and her son Lev (by Gumilev). Lev’s later arrest during the purges and terrors of the 1930s was based on being his man’s son.

The executions had a powerful effect on the Russian intelligentsia, destroying the acmeist poetry group, and placing a stigma on Akhmatova and her son Lev (by Gumilev). Lev’s later arrest during the purges and terrors of the 1930s was based on being his man’s son.