Given the question: Facts: - notableworks: diaries - birth name: nikolay nikolayevich punin - subject: contemporary art , art history - death date: 21 august 1953 - spouse: anna arens -lrb- 1917 -- ? -rrb- - children: irina - birth date: november 28 1888 december 11 - partner: anna akhmatova - death place: gulag , vorkuta , soviet union - birth place: helsingfors , grand duchy of finland - occupation: scholar , writer , political prisoner Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of nikolay punin .
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nikolay nikolayevich punin -lrb- ; -- august 21 , 1953 -rrb- was a russian art scholar and writer .he edited several magazines , such as '' izobrazitelnoye iskusstvo '' among others , and was also co-founder of the department of iconography in the state russian museum .punin was a lifelong friend and common-law husband of poet anna akhmatova who is famous for writing the poem '' requiem '' .