Pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko 1889-1966.
Russian poet. Among her works are the cycle
Requiem 1963 (written in the 1930s), which
deals with the Stalinist terror, and Poem
Without a Hero 1962 (begun 1940). In the
1920s she published several collections of
poetry in the realist style of Mandelshtam,
but her lack of sympathy with the
post-revolutionary regimes inhibited her
writing, and her work was banned 1922-40 and
again from 1946. From the mid-1950s her work
was gradually rehabilitated in the USSR. In
1989 an Akhmatova Museum was opened in
Leningrad.