1. Bella Akhmadulina was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement.
23 Facts About Bella Akhmadulina
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Bella Akhmadulina was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language.
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Bella Akhmadulina is known in Russia as "the voice of the epoch".
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Bella Akhmadulina was known to international audiences via her travels abroad during the Khrushchev Thaw, during which she made appearances in sold-out stadiums.
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Bella Akhmadulina was born in Moscow on 10 April 1937, the only child of Akhat Valeevich Akhmadulin, a Tatar father and Nadezhda Makarovna Lazareva, a Russian-Italian mother.
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Bella Akhmadulina's literary career began when she was a school-girl working as a journalist at the Moscow newspaper, Metrostroevets, and improving her poetic skills at a circle organized by the poet Yevgeny Vinokurov.
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Bella Akhmadulina was the subject of criticism in Komsomolskaya Pravda in 1957.
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Bella Akhmadulina was expelled in 1959 as a result of her opposition to the persecution of Boris Pasternak.
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Bella Akhmadulina wrote essays about Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov.
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Bella Akhmadulina appeared in sold-out stadiums in the 1960s, as did the poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky and Robert Rozhdestvensky.
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Bella Akhmadulina participated in many international poetry events including Kuala Lumpur International Poetry Reading.
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The main themes of Bella Akhmadulina's works are friendship, love, and relations between people.
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Bella Akhmadulina wrote numerous essays about Russian poets and translators, some devoted to her close friend, Bulat Okudzhava.
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Bella Akhmadulina avoided writing overtly political poems, but took part in political events in her youth, supporting the so-called "dissident movement".
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Bella Akhmadulina translated Russian poetry from France, Italy, Chechnya, Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, and many others.
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Bella Akhmadulina made use of imagery and humour in her work.
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Bella Akhmadulina used rhymed quatrains in her early works, which discussed ordinary, yet imaginative occurrences from daily life in language that was full of both archaisms and neologisms.
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Bella Akhmadulina's third marriage in 1971 to film director Eldar Kuliev produced a daughter, Elizaveta Kulieva, who is a poet.
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Bella Akhmadulina died at her home in Peredelkino near Moscow on 29 November 2010 at the age of 73.
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Bella Akhmadulina's husband said her death was from a heart condition, describing it as a "cardiovascular crisis".
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Medevdev wrote that Bella Akhmadulina's poetry was a "classic of Russian literature".
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Bella Akhmadulina was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, memorialised by a grave monument.
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In 1977, Bella Akhmadulina became an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.