Contents
Preface to the English Edition
Foreword. Anatoly Naiman: Lessons of a Poet
Akhmatova on Akhmatova
Autobiographical Prose: Sketches, Notes, Diary Entries, and Lectures
Valeria Sreznevskaya: Recollections
Georgy Adamovich: Meetings with Anna Akhmatova
Boris Anrep: The Black Ring
Kornei Chukovsky: From My Diary
Nadezhda Mandelshtam: Akhmatova
Lydia Ginzburg: Brief Reminiscences on Anna Akhmatova
Emma Gershtein: The Thirties
Emma Gershtein and Nina Olshevskaya-Ardova: Conversations
Natalia Roskina: Good-bye Again
Vyacheslav Vsevelodovich Ivanov: Meetings with Akhmatova
Boris Anrep: Nikolai Nedobrovo and Anna Akhmatova
Artur Lurye: Olga Afanasyevna Glebova-Sudeikina
Anna Akhmatova on Osip Mandelshtam: Pages from a Diary
Vladislav Khodasevich: Gumilev and Blok
Alphabetical Listing of Names, Places, and Historical Events