are inscribed in golden letters in the national and world culture among them outstanding pianist emil gillis violinist writer valentin kataev the famous soviet commander rodion malinovsky marriage kataeva writer yevgeny petrov co-author of ilya ilf isaac babel among the famous odessa anna andreevna akhmatova, fate was unusually cruel to this brilliant woman and the great russian poet, most of her life and work . it fell on one of the most tragic periods of russian history, the first world war, the revolution, the civil war , the famine, the extrajudicial repressions, executions, and finally, the second world war and the blockade of leningrad, in total, anna akhmatova's poems were not published in the soviet union for more than 20 years. days remained faithful. life march 5 , 1966 today no one remembers the names of the persecutors of the great poet. not those decisions in which akhmatova's poems were branded as unprincipled and alien to soviet people, her poetry forever remained one of the brightest and most inaccessible peaks of russian literature. in february 1942, she wrote the famous poe