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On a snowy St. Petersburg street in 1903, Nikolai Gumilev, already a budding poet, met and fell in love with the fourteen year old Anna Gorenko (Akhmatova). In that moment, she would take her place at the center of Gumilev's emotional life and his poetic world. Despite the painful ruptures between the two over the next eighteen years, she would remain there until his abrupt and violent death in 1921 at the age of thirty-three. Swan Akhmatova and Gumilev is the compelling and tragic story of these two great Russian poets, one well known in the West, the other quite unknown. It is told through their biographies, letters, journals, memoirs and especially the poems that Akhmatova and Gumilev wrote to and about one another. These poems, newly translated by the author and set in the context of their lives, provide the key to unlocking the secrets of this passionate, turbulent and often painful relationship that Akhmatova herself called a 'terrifying and burning love.' This book will follow the two poets through their childhood and student days in Tsarskoe Selo and Gumilev's years of persistent wooing of Anna that finally ended with their marriage. In the Silver Age of Russian poetry, Akh

Author

Laird, Francis

Publisher

1st Books Library

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781403324184