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Anna Akhmatova: Life
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One of the most important places in Anna Akhmatova's life is Tsarskoe Selo, just 25 km (18 miles) ouside of St Petersburg. Tsarskoe Selo (the czar’s village) served as a getaway for the Imperial family since Peter the Great and until Nicholas II.
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Despite many opportunities, Akhmatova herself refused to leave Russia, and in fact wrote scornful poems about her friends who had. She embraced her country as deeply as she had embraced earlier tribulations, and her life become sort of a terrible experiment in how much can be taken away from a person without the total destruction of the spirit.
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Elaine Feinstein's biography, by contrast, is poorly written, confusingly structured and overburdened with details concerning the vicissitudes of Akhmatova's love-life. Nero fiddled while Rome burned; Feinstein peers through bedroom keyholes while her subject participates in and reflects upon momentous historical events.
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