AKHMATOVA ANNA: (1889-1966) Her real name being Anna Andreievna Gorenko. Russian Poet. A highly awar...

AKHMATOVA ANNA: (1889-1966) Her real name being Anna Andreievna Gorenko. Russian Poet. A highly awar...
AKHMATOVA ANNA: (1889-1966) Her real name being Anna Andreievna Gorenko. Russian Poet. A highly awarded artist, whose husband was executed by the Soviet secret police, and her son sent to Gulag. A first edition unsigned copy of her Selected Works Poems compiled by K. Zelinsky, 1943, in Cyrillic. The back cover and spine of the book are missing. The book contains 114 pages, including over 80 poems, some edited for the first time, including `For Alexander«, `Mayakovsky«, `My voice is weak, but not my will«, `I«ll erase this day from your memory«, etcÉ The book is divided in three sections, the first one contains poems of the last years, about Homeland, Duty, works dedicated to Russian poets and cities, and concludes with a poem to Mayakovsky. The second one contains poems about art, creativity and poems inspired by history. The third one contains love poems. F £150-200