Being one of the most famous Russian poets, Anna Akhmatova lived a very difficult life. Her work is literally imbued with sadness, longing and tearing the soul of regret, but it is not deprived and bright emotions. Undoubtedly, difficult private life left its mark on her poems, making them so alive, real and shrill.
The first poems of the future poetess wrote when she was only 11 years old. True, the result is not too impressed. In childhood she was very thin, because of what her peers teased her with a “mummy”. With the pseudonym “Akhmatova” instead of her real last name, Gorenok, she began to subscribe because of a conflict with her father, who did not believe in her talent and forbade her to sign with this name.
The famous Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani painted several dozen paintings, inspired by her short-lived relationship with Anna Akhmatova, who began during her visit to Paris. Fame Akhmatova brought her collection of poems “Rosary”. The poetess had three husbands.
During the years of Soviet repression, all the closest people of Anna Akhmatova, both her ex-husband, son and lover, came under the attack of the authorities. The museum of the poetess is located in the apartment of her former lover Nikolai Punin, in which she lived for some time with him and his wife. Many works by Anna Akhmatova were not published even years after her death. For example, the famous poem “Requiem” was published only in the 80s of the last century. The fact that during the lifetime of the poetess kept a diary, it became known only after her departure from life.
