Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet

I had never heard of Anna Akhmatova until three months ago. I've read 10 pages a day and just finished and I will miss the bio. It's one of the best bio's I've read in a long time and now I will start reading her poetry.

Much more than the biography of a great poet, it is a looking glass into intellectual life in Russia during one of its most prolific and tragic eras. Invaluable. (Reviewed in Russian Life)

First of all, I've read this bio Twice thru and still, not enough! Akhmatova had a fascinating beauty. Painted and photographed by many. She was a great poet who evolved during Un imaginable tumolt . She witnessed this & uncannily endured. But what an undivided love and loyalty left over riding for this place called Russia. What a strange continent this must be.. What a place of paradoxs, Russia must be. This rich bio lends all of that. One of my FAVORITE biographies, ever! i

Beautifully written bringing to life the real Anna set in the real history of that period in Russia. Both a history lesson and a poetry lesson.