Akhmatova is Everywhere

I, like all of you juniors, am discovering Anna Akhmatova's life and her poetry, and the Web is full of wonderful discoveries. This woman is considered one of Russia's four greatest poets. I think what inspires people the most about her is that she never abandoned Russia in all the turbulent times she lived through. Her poems were the encouragement people needed to press on despite overwhelming odds against them. The Akhmatova Project (logo above) is a theatrical production dedicated to spreading her artistic vision through theater. One writer put it this way:

“Anna Andreevna Akhmatova used poetry to give voice to the struggles and deepest yearnings of the Russian people, for whom she remains the greatest of literary heroines. She has lately come to symbolize for the world even beyond Russia the power of art to survive and transcend the terrors of our century.”

-- Judith Hemschemeyer, A Stranger to Heaven and Earth