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This powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about the great poet of the Silver Age of Russian literature is now available to the English-speaking world. Neither a critical study nor a strict biography, Anna Akhmatova and Her Circle contains reminiscences that open a window into the Russian literary scene from pre-revolutionary days through the Stalin years and up to the short-lived Kruschev "thaw". This collection presents the views of some of Russia's prominent literary and cultural figures, including Akhmatova's husband, the poet Nikolai Gumilev, who was shot by the government in the...

This is a powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about the great poet of the Silver Age of Russian literature. Here are reminiscences that open a window into the Russian literary scene from pre-revolutionary days through the Stalin years and up to the short-lived Kruschev "thaw." The book includes pieces by Akhmatova's husband, the poet Nikolai Gumilev, Alexandr Blok, and Osip Mandelstham. Several of Akhmatova's personal observations and poems about her own life and the life of her beloved Russia are also included.