1920-30's Post Revolution
The revolution impacted my life and all of Russia. Nothing was the same again. The bolsheviks wanted us to conform, they used properganda and they used force. Any activists were thrown in jail. or worse. I was told to write poetry about tractors! Poetry that would promote the communist regime and influence the people as I used to. I refused. I was then banned from writing but this did not stop me. These forces only made me more passionate about my writing. My husband was killed and my son sentenced to jail 'this woman is utterly alone, with husband dead, with son awyay in jail. Pray for me. Pray' Requiem 2. These sufferings I went through were shared by every person in Russia. 'Requiem' was born from this. It was a poem that all of Russia understood. 'I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place.' Requiem.
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