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Which Acmeist poet, whose husband was executed by the Soviet secret police, wrote the lyrical cycle 'Requiem' documenting the terror of the late 1930s?

Anna Akhmatova composed 'Requiem' between 1935 and 1961, memorising fragments rather than writing them down; it was first published in full in the West in 1963.

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