Akhmatova
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Why, the chorus asks, quoting Anna Akhmatova, is this age worse than others?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2025
Odesa’s past is intertwined with some of Russia’s most revered figures, including Catherine the Great, author Leo Tolstoy and poet Anna Akhmatova.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023
Some of the greatest Ukrainian-born writers, from Gogol and Bulgakov to Babel, Akhmatova, Grossman and Kuznetsov, did their work in Russian.
From New York Times • May 24, 2022
One day, waiting for a yeshiva friend at a library, Indursky leafed through the work of the Hebrew-language poet known simply as Rachel, Israel’s Anna Akhmatova.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2019
He calls on an ensemble of writers, poets, witnesses and visionaries — Anton Chekhov, Vasily Grossman, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam — to ground the story.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2018
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