1922 portrait of Anna Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, located in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; Public Domain I first discovered Anna Akhmatova’s poetry when I was living in St.

Born in Odessa, educated in Kiev, and launched into poetic immortality as the beautiful incarnation of ­pre-revolutionary Petersburg, Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) was the most famous Russian poet of her ...

Theater fans will be able to listen to this legend from the comfort of home! Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) has announced that British actress Vanessa Redgrave will play the role of Russian ...

David Brooks has a lovely and, I think, important column today about a magical night ages ago, in which the philosopher Isaiah Berlin stayed up all night talking with the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, ...

Memory of Sun Memory of sun seeps from the heart. Grass grows yellower. Faintly if at all the early snowflakes Hover, hover. Water becoming ice is slowing in The narrow channels. Nothing at all will ...

The Russian poet Nikolai Gumilyov was so desperate to marry his teenage sweetheart Anna Akhmatova that when she kept refusing him, he attempted suicide — three times. Eventually, after years of his ...

Kansas City soprano Victoria Botero and Vanessa Thomas sing together during a rehearsal of Anna Akhmatova’s poem "Song About Songs" put to music by American musician Iris DeMent. A group of Kansas ...

There's a surge of interest in the work of 20th century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. It's inspired in part by American country and folk singer-songwriter Iris Dement, who has an adopted daughter from ...

Ahead of Victory Day, we would like to share with you a poem which was a source of inspiration and consolation for many during World War II. Jonathan Bex, actor and director of the Moscow English ...

Eight months ago, I came across a passage in a book that has haunted me since. It was in Michael Ignatieff's biography of Isaiah Berlin, and it concerns a night Berlin spent in Leningrad in 1945.