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Pseudonym of Anna Gorenko, Russian lyric poet recognized as one of the greatest poets in Russian literature. Together with Osip Mandelstam she was a leader of the early 20th-century acmeist movement, which called for use of poetic language that would convey exact meanings with simplicity and clarity. Beginning in the early 1920s, publication of her work was banned by the Soviet regime. This ban was gradually lifted following Josef Stalin's death in 1953. Her later poems chronicle both her own sufferings and those of all Russians during Stalin's reign. Most important works are collections "Vecher" ("Evening"), "Chyotki" ("The Rosary") and "Belaya staya" ("The White Flock"), poems "Rekviem" ("Requiem") and "Poema bez geroya" ("Poem Without a Hero"). Born in a village of Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, lived in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow. Anna
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