Firemen have put out fire at the vessel “Anna Akhmatova” at a channel near Moscow. According to the fire service’s data, the area gripped with fire was 430 square meters. It took the firemen 6 hours to put the fire out. It was especially difficult...

The body of work that she was able to garner in the midst of her extreme suffering in life and love is a unique and varyingly orchestrated requiem. The fact that the poet was officially and publicly reviled as "half whore, half nun" in the post-war...

And in the dark of the theater boxes that stifling sweet smell. Wind from the gulf. And there between the lines, shunning the ‘ahs’ and the ‘ohs,’ Blok will smile at you contemptuously– the tragic tenor of the age. “Three Verses” by Anna Akhmatova,...

She wrote last week that her comfort this Christmas was "knowing that the godlessness, inhumanity and criminality" of Mr. Yanukovich's government had been exposed. "As Anna Akhmatova, the great poetic chronicler of Stalin's terror, said, 'I am alive in...

She wrote last week that her comfort, this Christmas, was “knowing that the godlessness, inhumanity and criminality” of Mr. Yanukovich’s regime had been exposed. “As Anna Akhmatova, the great poetic chronicler of Stalin’s terror, said, ‘I am alive in...

It is within our power to recover or reinvigorate our freedoms and our societies, not by individual efforts, but by joining forces with likeminded people all over the world. I know that we will manage this. This Christmas, I ask my family and friends...