In Love and Revolution. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova anti-war this is Russia’s war –

this is Russia’s war – against Ukraine

что им предшествовало или осталось за рамками боевых сводок

ending with his prison diaries

and the many forms of love

In Love and Revolution. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova anti-war this is Russia’s war –Anna Akhmatova was born near Odesa, Ukraine, in 1889. Christened Anna Gorenko, she adopted her pen name from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo, near St Petersburg and lived most of her life in that city, with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married fellow poet Nikolay Gumilev. Together they