N.N. Punin Diaries and Correspondence 1910-1939 (bulk 1915-1926)

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N.N. Punin Diaries and Correspondence 1910-1939 (bulk 1915-1926)

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Diaries, conversation books, correspondence, and other papers document this art scholar and critic's relationship with poet Anna Akhmatova, as well as his experiences as a humanistic Russian intellectual living under a Communist régime.

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Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966

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Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was a Russian poet From the guide to the Anna Akhmatova papers, 1963, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Russian poet of the Acmeist movement. Poema bez geroia, begun during the Second World War in Tashkent and written over several decades, is set at a masked ball in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War and describes Russian society and Akhmatova's personal tumult during this period. From...

Punin, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich)

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Punin was born on 28 Nov. 1888 into the family of a Russian army medical officer stationed in Helsinki. After graduating from the classical gymnasium at Tsarskoe Selo he attended St. Petersburg University from 1907 until 1914. Punin began a career as an art scholar and critic, writing for major St. Petersburg periodicals and co-founding the Department of Iconography in the Russian Museum of St. Petersburg. In 1917 N. N. Punin married Anna Arens, a phy...