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Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1889 – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian and Soviet poet, one of the most significant of the 20th century. She reappeared as a voice of Russian poetry during World War II. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and 1966.

Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935–40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. The strong and clear leading female voice struck a new chord in Russian poetry. Her writing can be said to fall into two periods – the early work (1912–25) and her later work (from around 1936 until her death), divided by a decade of reduced literary output. Her work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities, and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate and remaining in the Soviet Union, acting as witness to the events around her. Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism.

Primary sources of information about Akhmatova's life are relatively scant, as war, revolution and the Soviet regime caused much of the written record to be destroyed. For long periods she was in official disfavour and many of those who were close to her died in the aftermath of the revolution. Akhmatova's first husband, Nikolai Gumilev, was executed by the Cheka, and her son Lev Gumilev and her common-law husband Nikolay Punin spent many years in the Gulag, where Punin died.

Amedeo Modigliani (n. 12 iulie 1884, Livorno, Regatul Italiei – d. 24 ianuarie 1920, Paris, Île-de-France, Franța) a fost un pictor și sculptor italian stabilit în Franța, reprezentant al Școlii Pariziene ("École de Paris"), evidențiat în scurta sa viață printr-o creație plină de eleganță și rafinament, care depășește granițele manierismului, având clare tangențe în modernism, expresionism și fauvism, respectiv cu largi amplitudini în arta figurativă.

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Nikolai Nikolaievici Punin (rusă Николай Николаевич Пунин) (n. 1888 la Helsingfors (azi Helsinki, Finlanda), d. 21 august 1953 în lagărul din satul Abez, lângă orașul Vorkuta din R.A.S.S. Komi) a fost un istoric și critic de artă rus, una din victimele nenumărate ale comunismului sovietic.