Anna Akhmatova was born on 11 June 1889 in Odesa. A Russian poet, Akhmatova was a leading voice of the Acmeist movement and became one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Her early lyric verse made her famous in St Petersburg, and her later works, Requiem and Poem Without a Hero, bore witness to the terror of the Stalin years, when her son was imprisoned and her husband had been executed. She was denounced by the authorities in 1946 and expelled from the Writers' Union, and she circulated her work in secret, with friends memorizing the verses. Her reputation was restored in the Thaw, and she was honored abroad before her death.
Before and after
- 16 April 1889Birth of Charlie Chaplin
- 20 April 1889Birth of Adolf Hitler
- 26 April 1889Birth of Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 28 April 1889Birth of António de Oliveira Salazar
- 11 June 1889Birth of Anna Akhmatova
- 5 July 1889Birth of Jean Cocteau
- 8 July 1889Launch of The Wall Street Journal
- 21 September 1889Founding of General Conference on Weights and Measure
- 23 September 1889Founding of Nintendo
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