Lyrics. Akhmatova A.A.

When at the beginning of the century Marina Tsvetaeva called Akhmatov “Anna All Rus'”, even the most benevolent critics saw an exalted exaggeration in this. But the century ended, and it turned out that Tsvetaeva was not mistaken: according to a survey conducted by the Russian Institute of Social and National Research, Anna Akhmatova entered the list of the most outstanding figures of Russian literature of the 20th century, in the first ten: after the block and along with the Blok and along with S. Yesenin and A. Solzhenitsyn.