About her husband, Nicolai Gumilev.
He loved…
He loved three things alone:
White peacocks, evensong,
Old maps of America.
He hated children crying,
And raspberry jam with his tea,
And womanish hysteria.
… And he had married me.
– by Ðнна Ðхматова (Anna Akhmatova) (1911)
– from Вечер (Evening, 1912), translation by D. M. Thomas.
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Nori
Must have been one helluva man she had there.
Russians…
JDZ
Look up Nicolai Gumilyov.
Nori
Done,thank you. Extraordinary man. The Cheka executed a great many like him, to Mother Russia’s great detriment.
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