Raisa Soltamuradovna Akhmatova was an internationally recognized Chechen poet. Raisa's poems have been especially popular among ethnic Chechens and Ingush worldwide, although her entire archive was destroyed when Russian forces burned the Chechen National Archives during the First Chechen War. Akhmatova is known for writing poem collections such as: Native Republic (1958), Strike Me in the Face, Wind (1959), I'm Coming to You (1960), Difficult Love (1963), and Revelation (1964).