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Anna Akhmatova

Died in 1966

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), born in Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, took as her pen name a Tatar name drawn from her family's history. Her first collection, published in 1912, made her known, and she took part in the Acmeist movement. A party resolution deprived her of publication from 1925 to 1940. Evacuated to Tashkent during the war, she was denounced in 1946 by Andrei Zhdanov and expelled from the Writers' Union. Awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford in 1965, she died on 5 March 1966.

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