Souls are high freedom. Three images of Anna Akhmatova

The collection presents the most vivid memoirs of three contemporaries of Anna Akhmatova, covering the "three eras" of her life. The fiction memoirs of Mikhail Zenkevich “The Muzhitsky Sphinx”, facing the long -standing of acmeism, are phantasmagoric, but Akhmatova, who managed to read them, noted: “What is the implausible truth!”

The book of Nadezhda Mandelstam “On Akhmatova” is preferential The memories of a friend, the widow of another great poet Osip Mandelstam - their friendship was checked by both time and severe trials.

“Stories about Anna Akhmatova” Anatoly Nikeman are devoted to the last period of the life of “Anna of All Rus'”, not in them Only her memorable image is recreated, but many “mysterious” places of her late verses are clarified.