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Anna Akhmatova—Poetess of Tragic Love

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Leonid I. Strakhovsky
Leonid I. Strakhovsky*
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Harvard University
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It was a wintry evening in 1911. The weekly Wednesday gathering at the “tower”, the residence of the erudite poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, was in full swing. Here was represented the flower of the St. Petersburg poetical world. Poets well established, those less established, and the beginners recited in turn and awaited the verdict of the host. Usually this verdict was politely deadly. The sentence thus pronounced was mitigated only by the realization that it was always to the point and always just. Hence even the slightest approval was a triumph for the victim.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1-2 , May 1947 , pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1947

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1 See Leonid I. Strakhovsky, “Nicholas Gumilyov The Poet-Warrior,” The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. xxii, No. 60, October 1944.

2 Translated by Gerard Shelley in Modern Poems from Russia, London 1942; slightly revised by the author.

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