"I have learned how faces fall to bone, how under the eyelids terror lurks."

— Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova Tee

"I have learned how faces fall to bone, how under the eyelids terror lurks."

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Era: Modern

Region: Russian

Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

1889 – 1966
Modern Russian

Russia's greatest 20th-century poet who bore witness to Stalinist terror in Requiem while maintaining an unwavering devotion to truth and artistic integrity.

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