Anna Akhmatova

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Anna Akhmatova

Sreznevskikh's ap., 9, Botkinskaya, Petrograd, Russian Republic

30.12.17

Mandelstam often visited me, and we rode in a cab on the incredible bumps of the revolutionary winter among the famous fires that burned almost until May, listening to a rifle rumbling from an unknown place. So we went to the Academy of Arts, where were evenings in favor of the wounded and where we both performed several times.

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Anna Akhmatova

Petrograd, Russian Republic

29.12.17

is attending an event at the Union of the People of Art

Also going: Bely, Blok, Sologub, Ivnev, Yesenin, Kuzmin, Mandelstam, Teffi.

Sergei Yesenin

2, Panteleymonovskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

27.12.17

is reading poetry at the Dekabrist Memorial Night

Also going: Blok, Akhmatova, Sologub, Teffi, Ivnev, ZamyatinMarine engineer, writer, Mandelstam.

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Anna Akhmatova

Sreznevskikh's ap., 9, Botkinskaya, Petrograd, Russian Republic

03.12.17

You’re always enigmatic and new,

And I am ready to serve your desire,
But the love that I’m getting from you
Is a trial by iron and fire. See more

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Anna Akhmatova

Sreznevskikh's ap., 9, Botkinskaya, Petrograd, Russian Republic

16.11.17

Now no-one will be listening to songs.

The days long prophesied have come to pass.
The world has no more miracles. Don't break
My heart, song, but be still: you are the last. See more

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Anna Akhmatova

Sreznevskikh's ap., 9, Botkinskaya, Petrograd, Russian Empire

01.10.17

When we waited, in suicidal
Thoughts, for our German guests,
When the cold, Byzantine idol
Filled the Church with greed and pest See more

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Anna Akhmatova

Sreznevskikh's ap., 9, Botkinskaya, Petrograd, Russian Empire

03.09.17

That voice, with silence disputing,
Has triumphed a little bit more.
Like sorrow or song in me brooding
Is the winter before the war. See more

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Anna Akhmatova

Slepnevo village, Russian Empire

29.08.17

Whether I end up in Paris or in Bezhentsk, this winter is shaping up to be equally unpleasant. The only place where I was able to breathe easy was Petersburg. But, since they started the monthly tradition of covering the pavements in the blood of citizens, it’s lost some of it’s charm in my eyes.

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Nikolay Gumilyov Anna Akhmatova

Paris, rue Galilée, 54, hôtel «Galilee»

29.08.17

Dear Anichka, you must no doubt be angry that I’ve not written you for so long, but I was purposely waiting for my fate to be decided. Now it has been. See more

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Anna Akhmatova Nikolay Gumilyov

Slepnevo village, Russian Empire

28.08.17

My dear Kolya,

Mother has finally received your letter from Paris. I am happy that you are staying in France. I think I don’t have to describe how badly I want to come to you. I beg you - try to arrange it, show me that yiu are my friend. See more

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Anna Akhmatova

Slepnevo village, Russian Empire

13.08.17

I am pulling flax and writing bad poetry.

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Anna Akhmatova

Slepnevo village, Russian Empire

04.08.17

The village is pure heaven. The peasants swear that our house stands on their bones. They’ve mowed down our meadow, but when management arrived from town to investigate they tearfully begged, “Mother mistress, forgive us, this is the last time!” Some socialists! Total darkness rules people’s minds.

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Nikolay Gumilyov Anna Akhmatova

London, United Kingdom

21.06.17

I’m living very well, every day I meet with someone interesting, laugh, write poetry and make new interesting literary connections.

Today I will be spending the evening at the house of one Yeats, an English Vyacheslav. I have also been promised a meeting with Chesterton, who, it turns out, is just over 40 but has written around 20 books. He is either greatly loved or utterly despised, but acknowledged by all.

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Anna Akhmatova

Sreznevskikh's ap., 9, Botkinskaya, Petrograd, Russian Empire

13.03.17

It’s going to be the same as the Great French Revolution, perhaps even worse.

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Boris Anrep with Anna Akhmatova

Anrepov's house, Ligovskiy avenue 3/9, Petrograd, Russian Empire

12.03.17

I don’t think much about the revolution. There is only one thought, one wish: to meet Anna Andreevna. I crossed the Neva on foot to avoid the barricades erected around the bridges. I remember a prison escapee, a boy aged about eighteen and seized by panic, who asked me for directions to the Varshavskiy train station. Staggering, I made my way to the house of Szreznevskiy, rung the bell and Anna Andreevna opened the door. “You? On a day like this? Officers are kidnapped on the streets”. – “I removed my epaulettes”. See more

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Age: 28

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Occupation: Poet

Married to

Nikolay Gumilyov

It is complicated with

Boris Anrep

Friends

Alexander Blok

Amedeo Modigliani

Vyacheslav Ivanov

Osip Mandelstam

Korney Chukovsky