Akhmatov mirrors

The outstanding actress Alla Demidova, who more than once performed the works of Anna Akhmatova from the stage, once decided to explore the secretography of one of the most mysterious works of Russian literature - “Poems without a hero”. The names and events are encrypted in it, not knowing about which the reader is unlikely to be able to penetrate into the depths of the text and understand his true meaning.

what people are hiding behind the fictional names of the characters, what are their relationships, how are the described events associated with genuine historical phenomena - A. Demidov gives his answer to these questions. The actress admits that “sifted through herself” letters, poems, diary entries, memoir prose of the poet, the memories of his contemporaries. And this work, which gave rich material for thought, resulted in the book "Akhmatov mirrors".