The Essay

7 Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva

14 min • 15 november 2017

Ten contemporary cultural specialists look back at the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on artists of the time - in film, theatre, poetry, dance and beyond. Poet and biographer Elaine Feinstein compares the impact of the Revolution on the contrasting lives of the two great poets, Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva.

Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Producer Alison Hindell BBC Cymru Wales.

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