Literature and Culture Seminars

  • 2024 Apr 18

    Three Emigrations of Anna Akhmatova

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Room S354, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Roman Timenchik, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Moderator: Daria Khitrova, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

    Emigrate or stay in Russia? The question so central to Russian intellectual discussions nowadays is, in a sense, a recurrence of a dilemma poised poignantly in Anna Akhmatova’s poetry one hundred years ago. More than once did mutual relationships between Akhmatova and Russian émigré community reach a dramatic peak. The talk explores several “inner...

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