by Lydia Chukovskaya
translated by Milena Michalski and Sylva Rubashova
Northwestern University Press, 2002
Paper: 978-0-8101-1940-6
Library of Congress Classification PG3476.A324Z58213 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.714

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) was one of the greatest Russian poets of this century. But during her life she was subjected to scathing critical attacks, denounced as "half-nun, half-whore," and then expelled from the Writers' Union. She also endured severe personal losses. Akhmatova's friend Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–96) kept intimate diaries of her conversations with the great poet. First published in the U.S.S.R. in 1987, The Akhmatova Journals offers a rare look into the day-to-day life of Akhmatova.