After receiving wide acclaim for the "Requiem", she and her family became a target of threats and assaults by Russian nationalist organization Pamyat.
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The composition was performed during the Anna Akhmatova centennial in Kremlin, 1989, and later in Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, USA and Israel.
Directed by Yulia Zhenova and based on Anna Akmatova's poetry (with music written by Zlata Razdolina) it featured Nina Shatskaya and actress Olga Kabo, "two of nature's elements, two unique women... recreating images of the lost past,