“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace”: Anna Akhmatova
Posted June 23, 2015
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Akhmatova in 1922 (portrait by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin)
According to Anna Akhmatova, the Russian modernist poet who was born on this day in history, 23 June, 1889:
“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
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