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.
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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