Akhmatova


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Akhmatova

Anna ('ann&). pseudonym of Anna Gorenko. 1889--1966, Russian poet: noted for her concise and intensely personal lyrics
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Akhmatova, who thought of getting company as she drove back 115 miles from Moscow to Tula, Russia, where her husband and eight-year-old daughter lived, was found dead in a forest.
Former Russian Soldier Raped, Killed Woman Who Gave Him Lift
In 1963 and 1972, he underwent "psychiatric examinations," and at one point was exiled to a remote village; but appeals by prominent Soviet and foreign intellectuals, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Anna Akhmatova, and Jean-Paul Sartre, got Brodsky's sentence shortened.
Two Poems
Sopranos Natalia Zagorinskaya and Juliane Banse sang outstandingly eloquent interpretations of the Troussova and Akhmatova cycles and "Kafka Fragments," respectively.
Last living composer of a golden generation feted in Budapest
With Akhmatova at the Black Gates is a book of what Berg termed "variations." It's awork of massive appropriation, a dependency it advertises.
"Being Here, Like This": The Poetry of Stephen Berg
Yn gynharach eleni fe fum yng nghartref Emily Dickinson a gweld yr arddangosfa wych a wnaed o'i gwaith a'i bywyd hi ac yn San Petersburg es i ymweld a chartref dila Anna Akhmatova, i enwi dim ond rhai.
Beth am brynu hen gartref RS i'r genedl? WELSHCOLUMN
As Anna Akhmatova, the great poetic chronicler of Stalin's terror, said, "I am alive in this grave." Indeed, I am more alive, I know, than the men who have imprisoned me here.
A prisonerAEs Christmas
Maristar has won two of her three starts, Burj Alzain and Akhmatova have been placed.
MY KIND OF TOWN; Why the Newmarket trainer's become a regular in Chicago INTERVIEW GERARD BUTLER Steve Dennis meets the trainer whose gamble to operate on both sides of the Atlantic is paying dividends and has given his career a welcome boost
When he was 21 years old, for instance, he was introduced to Anna Akhmatova, the tragic heroine of 20th-century Russian poetry.
Nowhere Man
In the circumstances she did well to hang on for second behind stablemate Akhmatova, who was better suited by the way the race was run, and this is a step down in grade.
Butler's singer is real sand dancer; THIS AFTERNOON AT WOLVERHAMPTON
The Singspiel filly ran on well when runnerup to Akhmatova at Lingfield last time out - and this looks a good opportunity to go one better.
BUTLER TO DELIVER
AKHMATOVA is fancied to cope with the step up in class needed to lift the Listed Inside Track Racing Club Quebec Stakes (1.55) at Lingfield.
I think it's all Tova.. it is now
LINGFIELD: GAZETTE BET: 1.55 Akhmatova. NAOMI MATTHEW: 11.50 Golden Shine, 12.20 Western Aristocrat, 12.50 New Den, 1.20 Rakaan, 1.55 Suits Me, 2.30 Kiss A Prince, 3.05 Desert Strike, 3.35 Estonia.
Suits tailor made for Lingfield glory

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