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Artist Yelena Osipova, at the opening of her exhibition on November 14, 2015. She stands next to posters that read, “August 6, 1945. August 9, 1945. Moms of the world against atomic energy,” and “Ukraine, forgive us: we let it happen.”

Image (2)  Artist Yelena Osipova holds a poster that reads, “Don’t believe in the justice of war,” during an unauthorized anti-war protest outside Kazan Cathedral in Petersburg on March 15, 2014. Photo by Sergey Chernov

Image (3-5)  One of the last survivors from the Siege of Leningrad, artist and pensioner Yelena Osipova was arrested by riot police in St. Petersburg on March 2 for asking for an end to the war.

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~ Anna Andreevna Akhmatova 

A friend's post resonated with me as I struggle with the pain and trauma of Putin’s vicious and unprovoked assault on Ukraine; an assault complicated by a history of Ukrainian trauma and loss that has affected my understanding of just about everything in this life. After days spent wandering through a sea of news media articles, and the unforgivable guilt of not being there to aid in the defence of Ukraine, I find myself turning back to art and poetry for insight and anti-oppressive possibilities as well as biographies and expository articles about artists oppressed by Communist regimes and authoritarian government like this one: 

[PUBLICLY in the few years at the beginning and end of her career, covertly and clandestinely during the Stalin era, Anna Akhmatova was an icon of suffering and authenticity in Russian literature. She chose not to emigrate after the 1917 Revolution; she lived through the execution by firing squad of her first husband, Nikolai Gumilev, in 1921; arrests in the 30's and 40's of her third husband, Nikolai Punin, and his eventual death in a Siberian camp in 1953; the arrests of many close friends during the Stalin years and alienation from many others; estrangement from her son, the scholar Lev Gumilev, in prison and in the gulag; evacuation from besieged Leningrad during World War II; and official condemnation, first during the 1920's and again in 1946. Unexpectedly, she was allowed to travel abroad to receive the Taormina Poetry Prize in Italy in 1964 and an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in 1965]

Russia's Cassandra, Russia's Antigone By Robert P. Hughes, Jan. 1, 1995 for The New York Times...

There are so many chapters in her life that a succinct summary is rather futile so I’m passing along a link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova

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L’univers solaire d’Henry Roy

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