among them is the outstanding pianist emil gillels. violinist david oistrakh, writer.ng the famous natives of odessa, special the place belongs to anna andreevna akhmatova. fate was unusually cruel to this brilliant woman and great russian poet. most of her creative life occurred during one of the most tragic periods of russian history. the first world war, revolution, civil war, famine, extrajudicial repression and executions. and finally, the second world war. leningrad blockade. in total , anna akhmatova's poems were not published in the soviet union for more than 20 years, but until the end of her days she remained faithful to the free russian word and his long-suffering homeland. anna andreevna akhmatova passed away on march 5 , 1966 and was buried here at the komarovskoye village cemetery. today. no one remembers the names of the persecutors of the great poet, nor those resolutions in which akhmatova’s poems were branded as unprincipled and alien to soviet people. her poetry forever remained one of the brightest and most unattainable peaks of russian literature.