Born Anna Andreyevna Gorenko. Lived 1889 to 1966. A Russian poet in the Acmeist school. Like Osip Mandelstam she was unpopular with the powers of the time. Her husband Gumilyov was executed in 1921. Like the other Acmeists, her poetry is hard, lean, efficient. It is beautiful and evocative nonetheless:

 We're no good at saying goodbye.
 We wander around, shoulders touching.
 It's begun to get dark already.
 You look vacant, I say nothing.

 We'll stop in this church and see
 someone buried, or christened, or married.
 We'll leave, avoiding each other's eyes.
 Why does nothing work out for us?

 Or we'll go in this graveyard and sit
 where someone has already sat on the snow
 and you'll draw with the end of your stick
 dream-chambers where we'll live forever.

(1917, trans Clarence Brown)