“... The creative destiny of Anna Akhmatova developed in such a way that only five of her poetic books are “Evening” (1912), “Rosary” (1914), “White Flock” (1917), “Plantain” (1921) and “Anno Domini” (in two editions, 1921 and 1922-1923) was compiled by herself. Over the next two years, Akhmatova’s poems occasionally appeared in periodicals, but in 1925, after the next Ideological Conference, at which, in the words of Anna Andreevna herself, she was sentenced to “civil death,” they stopped publishing it. <...> This edition includes the texts of Anna Akhmatova’s first five books, in the edition and in the order in which they first saw the light. The first four collections - “Evening”, “Rosary”, “White Flock” and “Plantain” are published according to the first edition, “Anno Domini” - according to the second, more complete, Berlin one, printed in October 1922, but published with the note: 1923...."