“Where are they now, my nameless friends
from those two years I spent in hell?
What specters mock them now, amid
the fury of Siberian snows,
or in the blighted circle of the moon?
To them I cry, Hail and Farewell!
— March 1940”

—  Anna Akhmatova

Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), Dedication

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