Akhmatova Orphans (russian: Ахматовские сироты) was a group of four twentieth-century

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Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

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Anatoly Naiman Anatoly Genrikhovich Naiman ( rus, Анатолий Генрихович Найман; 23 April 1936 – 21 January 2022) was a Russian poet, translator and writer. He was one of the four Akhmatova's Orphans. Biography Born on 23 April 1936 in ...

, and

Dmitri Bobyshev Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev ( rus, Дми́трий Васи́льевич Бо́бышев; born 11 April 1936, Mariupol) is a Soviet poet, translator and literary critic. Biography Dmitry Bobyshev was born on 11 April 1936 in Mariupol. From his ...

— who gathered as acolytes around the poet

Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; uk, А́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко, Ánna Andríyivn ...

. Akhmatova called them her "magic choir", but after Akhmatova's death they were called "Akhmatova's Orphans".

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