--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Russian Poet Bella Akhmadulina description: Russian poet, short story writer, and translator Bella Akhmadulina was honored with a Google Doodle tribute canonical: https://time.com/4732465/bella-akhmadulina-google-doodle-russia/ author: Ryan Kilpatrick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-10T05:01:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:40.153Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Russian Poet Bella Akhmadulina og:description: She was considered one of the era's greatest poets by her contemporaries. og:url: https://time.com/4732465/bella-akhmadulina-google-doodle-russia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6be033d39015ec09/6988c20d7cdbac414bd57ce0/e89ea2e5b995e5bfabe785a7-2017-04-10-e4b88ae58d889-28-57.png?branch=production&width=615&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 615 og:image:height: 346 og:image:alt: Bella Akhmadulina doodle og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Russian Poet Bella Akhmadulina twitter:description: She was considered one of the era's greatest poets by her contemporaries. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6be033d39015ec09/6988c20d7cdbac414bd57ce0/e89ea2e5b995e5bfabe785a7-2017-04-10-e4b88ae58d889-28-57.png?branch=production&width=615&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Doodle Celebrates Beloved Russian Poet Bella Akhmadulina > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Ryan Kilpatrick](https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Apr 10, 2017 5:01 AM UTC  Google by [Ryan Kilpatrick](https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Apr 10, 2017 5:01 AM UTC Russian poet, short story writer, and translator Bella Akhmadulina was honored with a [Google Doodle ](https://www.google.com/doodles/bella-akhmadulinas-80th-birthday)tribute on what would have been her 80th birthday. Born in Moscow on April 10, 1937, [Akhmadulina](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUmJ5oFD%5FJA) was a star of the Russian New Wave literary movement that emerged in the 1960s and was considered one of the era’s greatest poets by her contemporaries. The recipient of a panoply of prestigious awards such as the Pushkin Prize and USSR State Prize, Akhmadulina frequently recited her work to packed auditoriums and stadiums at home and abroad. Outside of the USSR, she achieved fame during the period of relaxed censorship controls known as the Khrushchev Thaw. Although her writing was apolitical, Akhmadulina was often critical of the Soviet authorities and spoke out for other writers and dissidents such as Nobel laureates Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 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