The interest of reading Russia in the personality and tragic fate of Anna of All Rus' - Anna Akhmatova does not weaken, confirming the correctness of her own words: “The most durable thing on earth is sadness and the most durable is the royal word.” It is to such readers that “Silver Willow” is addressed. This is not another collection of poems and poems by A.A. Akhmatova. This is a kind of autobiographical novel, where fragments of memoir prose, commenting on the verses, fill in the gaps between them.