Stalin’s spiritual heir, Yuri Andropov, combined the bureaucratic with the romantic. As head of the KGB, he persecuted dissidents and crushed the Hungarian uprising, while writing love poems to ...

After a sold-out run at Pushkin Hall, The Russian Arts Theater and Studio is pleased two present two encore performances of Enemies Of The People: Poetry and Music Under Stalinist Regime.

To avoid persecution by Stalin, Anna Akhmatova burnt her writings and memorised the words of her poem Requiem. By doing so she ensured its survival, writes Martin Puchner.

Known as the ‘Iron lady’ of Russian poetry, Akhmatova devoted two poems to Stalin. They were published in ‘Ogonyok’ magazine in 1949 and 1950.

Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and ...

It was only the direct intervention of the poetry-loving Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin’s ally in the defeat of Trotsky, that brought the matter to a close. The Mandelstams were despatched to Armenia under ...

In 1934, he recited his notorious epigram on Stalin to dinner guests; he was denounced by one of them, arrested, exiled, arrested again, and sent to his death in the Gulag. An illustration ...

A Russian teacher says she was forced to quit her job at a school in the city of St. Petersburg after she read poems to her class by two authors who had been persecuted during Soviet dictator ...

He wrote one of the best love poems in history Moscow, 1933-1934. R-L: Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Maria Petrovykh, Osip's father Emil, wife Nadezhda and brother Alexander.