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Anna Akhmatova
Born:
1889, Bolshoi Fontan (Odessa Province)
Died:
1966, Moscow
Poetess. Born at the resort of Bolshoi Fontan on the Black Sea (1899) in the family of Andrei Gorenko (1848–1915) and Inna Stogova (1856–1930). Studied in Tsarskoe Selo and lived in St Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad. Married Nikolai Gumilyov (1910–18) and Vladimir Shileiko (1918–26), lived with Nikolai Punin (1922–38). Died in a hospital in Domodedovo near Moscow and buried at Komarovo Cemetery near Leningrad (1966).
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