ns, Lives, and Anna Akhmatova's "Requiem" is first book of poetry by Richard Lourie, author of The Autobiography Of Joseph Stalin, Zero Gravity, First Loyalty, A Hatred For Tulips, Sakharov: A Biography, Putin: His Downfall And Russia's Coming Crash, Hunting The Devil (a true-crime account of a Russian serial killer) and Russia Speaks: An Oral History From The Revolution To The Present. It is the eighth book from Poets & Traitors Press, founded in 2017 by Val Vinokur to publish books by poet-translators. Visit https: //www.poets-traitors.com