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Henry Holt and Company New York September 1991 Originally published in 1989 in the USSR under the title Rasskazy o Anne Akhmatovoy Translated by Wendy Rosslyn Introduction by Joseph Brodsky xiii, [1], 240 p.: Frontispiece sketch, "Anna Akhmatova, Paris, 1911,' by Amedeo Modigliani, from a private collection of the estate of Anna Akhmatova. Four unpaginated pages containing nine illustrations; 24 cm. (9.5 inches). Green cloth spine, with gilt-stamped spine title, blue paper over boards. Glossy, color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Notes, Biographical Guide, Chronology, Appendix, and Index. "Extracted from years of conversations and enlivened by memories that span sixty years, this vivid portrait of the lyric poet brings a heroic legend to life. We are offered a poet's-eye view of a twentieth-century Russia infiltrated by terror and honour - 'into what dirt they've trampled me - poverty, prison lines, fear, poems remembered only by heart. . . .' Through Akhmatova we meet, among others, Blok and Mandelstam, Pasternak and Tsvetaeva, two of whom gave their lives for their art. On the most personal scale, her losses included two of her husbands - poet Nikolay Gumilyov, killed in 1921 on Lenin's direct order, and art historian Nikolay Punin, who died in 1953 in prison - and the tragic eighteen-year imprisonment of her only child. On a more impersonal scale, she witnessed forty million lives put to an end by the police state of which she was a citizen" [from the dust jacket]
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