Talk:Anna Akhmatova

message: :Their son, born in 1912, was named Lyov to rhyme with the surname Gumilyov;
What the heck this rhyming thingy could mean? AFAIK, he is known as Lev Gumilyov (Гумилёв). Could it be a fantasy of an english speaker based on a variant of transcription Lev Gumilev (Гумилев), later "fixed" into "Lyov Gumilyov"? mikka (t) 21:09, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Some Russian Levs/Leos like to call themselves Lyov (Лёв), including Leo Tolsoy. Hellerick (talk) 06:58, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Lev Gumilyov

message: There are many translations of Akhmatova's works into English.  It would be appropriate to give credit to the translator after the poem. Samba 21:15, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grey-Eyed King 

message: This wasn't her dacha (she never had a dacha). Here is how poet Joseph Brodsky describes the visit: 
"she [Akhmatova] was much amused by the entire matter. It all turned out rather comical. Frost requested to meet Akhmatova because he knew that both of them were candidates to the Nobel Price that year. This was also obviously known to the Writer's Union administration. When the idea of a meeting was brought up the organizers realized that bringing Frost to see Akhmatova is impossible. What will he say when he sees her "shack"? This... doghouse? What will the journalists who are going to accompany Frost say? So the meeting was arranged to take place at the academic Alekseev's dacha. They brought Anna Andreyevna there by car. The place was hell let loose - an enormous gathering of idiots, informers, and Writer's Union juniors, which is often one and the same. Anna Andreyevna told later: "Imagine if you will: on the one hand sits Robert Frost, all hung up with every imaginable and conceivable medal and decoration that there are. And there on the other hand sit I, all hung up with every conceivable dog there is. And the conversation goes as if nothing happens. Up until the moment when he asks me "What do you do, madame, with the trees growing on your plot? I, for instance, make them into pencils". Here I couldn't take it any more and told the translator: "Tell Mr. Frost that if I was to cut down a tree on 'my plot' I would have to pay 6,000 rubles in fines".
(From "Dialogues with Joseph Brodsky", by Solomon Volkov (1998) 
D. Reider
http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Joseph-Brodsky-Twentieth-Century/dp/0743236394/sr=8-1/qid=1157536807/ref=sr_1_1/104-3616308-3279961?ie=UTF8&s=books)
:she never had a dacha<BR>
Actually, she did. Late in life, after Khrushchev attacked Stalin's excesses (Stalin had had her blacklisted for being visited by Isaiah Berlin, whom Stalin said was a spy), she was awarded a small government pension and a small dacha in the country where she received visitors. --Michael K. Smith 18:31, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "In 1962, her dacha was visited by Robert Frost." 

message: She died in Leningrad, not in St. Petersburg, right? What's written in the article is an anachronism. Hellerick (talk) 07:02, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old name 

message: "Ingeniously" structured, eh? 143.44.33.124 (talk) 19:07, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: Why is there no mention of her knowledge of Italian or relationship with the artist Modigliani?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.196.14.198 (talk) 23:56, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian/Modigliani 

message: ::May be there's a discussion to be had here about the Ukrainian spelling and diacritics of AK's name. No edit wars please. Perhaps offer some sources. Thanks Spanglej (talk) 23:11, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. Thank you for the information. Spanglej (talk) 03:12, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  "Ганна Ахматова" spelling is not uncommon: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:uk:official&client=firefox-a . -Galassi (talk) 07:01, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ukranian spelling of AK's name  

message: The German article is shorter than this but is FA; the Romanian article is approx double the size of the Russian article and is FA at present but its quality is being reviewed; the Russian article may be the likeliest source of additions.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 12:27, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand tags 

message: Anna spoke to some students at one time, while Stalin was alive. She got the impression that they were sent by Isaiah Berlin.
He denied this. Possibly others could provide greater detail.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.183.227 (talk) 16:27, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Students 

message: Greenwood says that Akhmatova's work was circulated in samizdat form in the Gulags. Booker, M. K (2005) Encyclopaedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing Vol. 1 A-G. Greenwood p21 ISBN-10: 0313329397. Span (talk) 23:12, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Samizdat circulation

message: I thought nobody talked about a 'Canon' of literature any more and the term was considered ridiculously exclusivist.  Isn't there another way of puttuing this? Sceptic1954 (talk) 07:24, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: , I'm inclined to agree.  I actually think the claim itself is altogether too strongly worded when written in such absolute, overarching, and unqualified terms and supported by only a single source which happens to be a collection of her poetry (rather than supported by multiple sources arising from scholarship or other independent and neutral secondary sources that don't have a stake-in/bias towards her work).  I'm going to give both issues some thought and the re-write the statement. Snow let's rap 03:45, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canon 

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message: I put  in the section that she was witnessed the siege of leningrand. Cause in reality she was from the last who was saved by stalin himself.
--Αντικαθεστωτικός (talk) 07:11, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I will remove the cn tag as a citation is given. Anna (talk) 09:49, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: she was chosen by Stalin and she escaped the siege. What means she witnessed the siege? For how long and from what distance? It is not true that she was inside the city like others civilians who were not connected with Stalin. Αντικαθεστωτικός (talk) 12:24, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: saved by stalin personally wasnot in the siege

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As for the edit itself, it has been corroborated and sourced from a reliable and credited book as well and backed by a direct quote from the book. Not quite sure how clarifying the origins of a poet is a 'political edit'. DanielLerish (talk) 15:23, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conforming to Wikipedia guidelines on edit history  

message: In Berberova’s autobiography, The Italics Are Mine, she describes meeting Akhmatova in the train car in which she was about to leave Paris on her way back to Russia in 1965. I don’t know what use of it could be made here, but it’s quite a touching story. It’s on p. 527-528. Poihths (talk) 21:09, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meeting with Nina Berberova in Paris in 1965