Admittedly , national anthems rarely make great literature , and other soviet poets , including on one occasion even the great anna akhmatova , found it expedient to put their pens at the service of the regime .
The zhivago legacy is russia 's " silver age " , when anna akhmatova , a poet , and vasily kandinsky , a painter , as well as others , flowered towards the end of the tsarist era and in the emancipated years immediately after the bolshevik revolution .
