1889. Anna Akhmatova was born

125 years ago, on June 23, 1889, the great Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova (Anna Andreevna Gorenko) was born. In 1946, she (together with Mikhail Zoshchenko) became a victim of the Decree of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b) “On the magazines“ Zvezda ”and“ Leningrad ”, which stated:“ Akhmatova is a typical representative of an alien to our people of empty unprofitable poetry. Her poems, saturated with the spirit of pessimism and decadency, expressing the tastes of the old salon poetry, frozen in the positions of bourgeois-aristocratic aesthetics and decadence, “art for art”, which does not want to keep up with their people harm the work of the education of our youth and cannot be tolerant in Soviet literature. ”

The poetess was excluded from the Writers' Union (restored in 1951). Although after the death of Stalin, Akhmatov gradually emerged from the official disgrace, the decree that excommunicated it from literature was canceled only in 1988.