Poems, poems, prose, excerpts from diaries and correspondence of Anna Akhmatova, intersecting with reviews and testimonies of contemporaries, fragments of their reviews and memoirs, form a kind of dotted line of life, a single plot, based on the relationship of the Poet with Time. Poet of the tragic 20th century, Anna Akhmatova was called upon to capture her time, to become the voice of the passing Russian culture and the keeper of its traditions. The linear composition of the book allows us to trace the evolution of Akhmatova’s work and gives an idea of how her relationships with famous contemporaries developed and changed. “Her poetry, read, persecuted, walled up, belonged to the people. She looked at the world first through the prism of her heart, then through the prism of living history. Humanity is not given any other optics” (Joseph Brodsky)