AKHMATOVA ANNA (1889-1966) Requiem: [Poem]. Munich: T-vo zarubezhnykh pisateley, 1963.

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23 p., portrait; 19.7x14.5 cm. Publisher's typeset cover. Modern slipcase. The first edition of Anna Akhmatova's famous poem, dedicated to the victims of the 1930s repressions. The poem was written in the years 1935-1940. In the USSR, it was first published in 1987. This cycle of poems was printed without the author's knowledge and consent. Akhmatova's portrait by S. Sorin (phototype).