Anna Akhmatova Resources

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Visit the Akhmatova Project for information regarding upcoming performances of this acclaimed work about Akhmatova.

Akhmatova poetry on the WWW:

Book: Zephyr Press If you have to have only 1 Akhmatova book it should be this!(And here is the author's page.)
Book: Eighties Press The late poet Jane Kenyon's translations of Akhmatova are what got me started in 1988--they are still my favorite & are in print again. You should really buy this.
Book: Thornton's Bookshop A vast amount of Russian books.
Friends Friends & Partners--bringing Americans and Russians together on the Web--a "must visit" site. They have some Akhmatova poems in Russian. This links to their US site in Knoxville, Tennessee.
AAP Academy of American Poet's Akhmatova Exhibit. Includes an Akhmatova poem.
Translations by Michael Cuanach In English
The First Long Range Artillery Fire On Leningrad English translation by Daniela Gioseffi
Many Poems in English from the poetrylovers site.
Texts of selected poems in Russian from Odessa Globe.
Deep Water Has links to Akhmatova poems in English.
White Flock Translation by Ilya Shambat.

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Akhmatova images on the WWW

Temple Of Anna Akhmatova Has high resolution images.
Petrov-Vodkin View a painting of Akhmatova--"Akhmatova and Her Muse."
Art Features an Amadeo Modigliani drawing of Akhmatova.
Modern Russian Poetry has some images in the poet's gallery.
David Levine drawing of Akhmatova by the famous illustrator.

Akhmatova resources on the WWW

Anna Akhmatova From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Akhmatova entries.
Anna Akhmatova Page by Kat Tancock -- it includes online poems in Englsh.
Odessa Biography of Akhmatova from the Odessa Page.
Stray Dog The Stray Dog Cafe was back--it's gone again though. (thanks for letting me know, Willibrord)
Amherst A collection of Akhmatova documents in Special Collections at Amherst.
Museum Info about the Akhmatova museum in St. Petersburg.
The First Akhmatova Museum about Sergei Dmitrievitch Umnikov private collection of Akhmatova materials.
Anna Akhmatova Museum Fountain House.
Video Order a video about Akhmatova--"The Anna Akhmatova File" (In Russian w/subtitles).
Venus Akhmatova has a crater on Venus named after her (has photo of it too).
Asteroids Akhmatova also has an asteroid named after her.
Books of the Century New York Public Library named "Requiem" in their list.
Encyclopedia.Com The Anna Akhmatova entry.
Akhmatova and the Russian Intelligentsia by Jacqueline Marcus.
The Places of Anna Akhmatova by Kenneth Okoth.
Listening Gallery Hear rare sound files of Akhmatova reading her poetry.

Related historical resources

Soviet Archives Go to the Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit--the section "Attacks on Intellegentia" on the "first floor" provides an insightful overview of what Akhmatova and other writers suffered.
Khan Genghis Khan: Treasures Of Inner Mongolia
The St. Petersburg Times online newspaper.
Stalin Literature Under Stalin

Related resources about others

Brodsky To the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky page
Nikolai Gumilev page in Russian, with poems.
Osip Mandelstam page in English
Boris Pasternak The Academy of American Poets.
Tsvetaeva page in French.
Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev page about Akhmatova's son.
Nikolai Gumilev Links and a neat photo.
Anna Akhmatova Links at gumilev.ru.

Russian literature resources on the WWW

An Introduction to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry by Lindsay Malcolm
Russian Poets of the 20th Century byRichard Boffin
Russian Literature. To the Russian and NIS Literature Resources Page.
Bobst Library Slavic Studies Resources with links to Polish and Czech resources as well.
From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Poetry free on the Internet at russianpoetry.net.
RusFem Russian Feminism Web Resources (in English).
Women Celebration of Women Writers.