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Chapters: Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Dubin, Arseny Tarkovsky, Virgilijus Čepaitis, Mariya Petrovykh, Nora Gal, Carlos Sherman, Dmitry Gerasimov, Vera Inber,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anna Akhmatova (Russian and Ukrainian: ; June 23 1889 - March 5, 1966) was the pen name of the modernist poet Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (Russian: ; Ukrainian: ), one of the most acclaimed female writers in the Russian canon. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. The strong and clear leading female voice struck a new chord in Russian poetry. Her writing can be said to fall into two periods - the early work (1912-25) and her later work (from around 1936 until her death), divided by a decade of reduced literary output. Her work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate, and remaining in Russia, acting as witness to the atrocities around her. Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism. Primary sources of information about Akhmatova's life are relatively scant, as war, revolution and the totalitarian regime caused much of the written record to be destroyed. For long periods she was in official disfavour and many of those who were close to her died in the aftermath of the revolution. Akhmatova wrote, No one in my large family wrote poetry. But the first Russian woman poet, Anna Bunina, was the aunt of my grandfather Erasm Ivanovich Stogov. The Stogovs were modest land...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=66569 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Anna Akhmatova, Probal Dasgupta, Leonard Nathan. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Anna Akhmatova (en russe : ; 23 juin 1889 - 5 mars 1966) est le nom de plume d'Anna Andreïevna Gorenko (en russe : ), une des plus importantes poétesses russes du siècle. Égérie des acméistes, surnommée la « reine de la Neva » ou « l'Âme de l'Âge d'Argent », Anna Akhmatova demeure aujourd'hui encore l'une des plus grandes figures féminines de la littérature russe. L'œuvre d'Akhmatova se compose aussi bien de petits poèmes lyriques, genre qu'elle contribue à renouveler, que de grandes compositions poétiques, comme Requiem, son sombre chef-d'œuvre sur la terreur stalinienne. Les thèmes récurrents de son œuvre sont le temps qui passe, les souvenirs, le destin de la femme créatrice et les difficultés pour vivre et pour écrire dans l'ombre du stalinisme. Anna Akhmatova en 1914Akhmatova est née à Bolchoï Fontan, près d'Odessa, troisième des six enfants d'un père ingénieur de marine. Dès 1890, la famille s'installe à Tsarskoïe Selo, où Anna reste jusqu'à l'âge de 16 ans. Elle grandit dans un milieu aisé, apprend très tôt le français à Tsarskoïe Selo. Elle écrit de la poésie dès l'âge de 11 ans, inspirée par ses poètes favoris : Evguéni Baratynski et Pouchkine. Son père craignant pour la réputation de son patronyme, elle prend le pseudonyme d'Akhmatova du nom d'origine tatare de sa grand-mère. Dessin d'Anna Akhmatova par Modigliani, 1911Après la séparation de ses parents en 1905, elle vit avec sa mère et ses frères et sœurs puis entreprend des études de droit dans une école pour filles de la bonne société à Kiev. Au cours de ses études, elle rencontre le poète Nikolaï Goumilev qu'elle finit par épouser en 1910, après qu'il...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Anna Akhmatova, Robert Gentilis, Helen Zimmern, Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud, José Agustín Goytisolo, François Tallemant the Elder, Jacques Adam, François de Grenaille, Daniel V. Thompson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anna Akhmatova (Russian and Ukrainian: ; June 23 1889 March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreëvna Gorenko (Russian: ; Ukrainian: ), a Russian/Soviet poet credited with a large influence on Russian poetry. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism. She has been widely translated into many languages and is one of the best-known Russian poets of 20th century. Akhmatova was born at Bolshoy Fontan in Odessa to Andrey Antonovich Gorenko and Inna Erazmovna Stogova. Her family belonged to the untitled Russian aristocracy. Her mother's family traced its ancestry to Achmat Khan (from whom the pen-name Akhmatova was derived), a direct descendent of Genghis Khan. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in 1905. She was educated in Tsarskoe Selo (where she first met her future husband, Nikolay Gumilyov) and in Kiev. Anna started writing poetry at the age of 11, inspired by her favourite poets: Racine, Pushkin, and Baratynsky. As her father did not want to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name, she chose to adopt the surname of her Tatar grandmother as a pseudonym. Many of the male Russian poets of the time declared their love for Akhmatova; she reciprocated the attentions of Osip Mandelstam, whose wife, Nade...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=66569 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Ukraine, Anna Akhmatova, Yulia Tymoshenko, Viktor Yanukovych, Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Viktor Yushchenko, Leonid Kuchma, Yuriy Yekhanurov, Kuksha of Odessa, Leonid Kravchuk, Job of Pochayiv, Patriarch Filaret, List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Ukraine, Job of Maniava, Patriarch Dymytriy, Volodymyr Sabodan, Vasiliy Bodnarchuk, Patriarch Volodomyr, Ephraim of Pereyaslavl, Sylvestr Kosiv, Rafail Zaborovsky, Isaia Kopynsky, Gregory Tsamblak, Yov Boretsky, Klymentii Smoliatych, Lazar Baranovych, List of Patriarchs of Ukraine. Excerpt:Amphilochius of Pochayiv Saint Amphilochius (1894-1971) (Ukrainian: ) was a 20th-century Ukrainian Orthodox saint , from Ternopil oblast of western Ukraine .Early years Amphilochius of Pochayiv was born Yakiv Holovatyuk on 27 November 1894 in the village of Mala Ilovytsya (Mala Ilowica in Polish), in Shumskyi raion of Ternopil oblast in western Ukraine , at that time part of Austria-Hungary . The village of Mala Ilovytsya is located in Ilovetska valley, which is 7 km (4 mi) wide, and is surrounded by the Kremenets mountains. It is the northernmost village of Ternopil oblast , off the main roads surrounded by forested areas. A remarkable tree grows in the village, a 350 year old ash tree . His father, Varnava, had 10 children. As a young soldier he went through the nightmares of the First World War when heavy battles took place in the area between imperial Austria and tsarist Russia at that time. There he saw death and started to understand the gift of life. Soon he was taken a prisoner of war by the Austrians. He later managed to flee.Joining Pochayiv Lavra Having returned home he intended to marry but the priest blessed him to join Pochayiv monastery . Yakiv humbly received the blessing and in 1925 happened to ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Eastern Orthodox Victims of Soviet Repressions, Anna Akhmatova, Aleksandr Kolchak, Nikolai Lossky, Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, Vladimir N. Beneshevich, Ivan Ilyin, Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch Ambrose of Georgia, Nikolai Berdyaev, Nikolay Gumilyov, Alexandru Baltagă, Alexander Hotovitzky, Peter of Krutitsy, Andronic Nikolsky, Andrei Shkuro, Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Veniamin, Metropolitan Vasyl, Semen L. Frank, Archbishop Joachim of Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, Catherine Schneider, Metropolitan Joseph, Alexander Dutov, Viktor Pokrovsky, Hermogenes, Bishop of Tobolsk and Siberia, Seraphim Chichagov, Philosophers' Ships, Artemie Munteanu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 143. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak (Russian: , November 16 1874 February 7, 1920) was a Russian naval commander, polar explorer and later head of all the anti-Bolshevik White forces during the Russian Civil War. He was also a prominent expert on naval mines and a member of the Russian Geographic Society. Among Kolchak's awards are the golden saber "For Valor" in the battle of Port Arthur and the Great Gold Constantine Medal from the Russian Geographic Society. Soviet maps depicted Kolchak Island up until the mid-1930s. Kolchak on ZaryaKolchak was born in Saint Petersburg in 1874 into a military family descending from the 18th-century Romanian mercenary Ilia Colceag. His father was a retired major-general of the Marine Artillery, who was actively engaged in the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, and after his retirement worked as an engineer in ordnance works near St. Petersburg. He was educated for a naval career, graduating from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1894 and joining the 7th Naval Battalion of the city. He was soon transferred to the Far East, serving in Vladivos...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=170155 ... Read more

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This is a powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about the great poet of the Silver Age of Russian literature. Here are reminiscences that open a window into the Russian literary scene from pre-revolutionary days through the Stalin years and up to the short-lived Kruschev "thaw."The book includes pieces by Akhmatova's husband, the poet Nikolai Gumilev, Alexandr Blok, and Osip Mandelstham. Several of Akhmatova's personal observations and poems about her own life and the life of her beloved Russia are also included. ... Read more

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Akhmatova is an extremely interesting woman, totally devoted to her country and her poetry - and for me this book also gave me a history lesson for that time period in Russian history. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 639 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. ... Read more