The fifth volume presents the prose of Anna Akhmatova: short stories about her contemporaries - A. Modigliani, O. Mandelstam, M. Lozinsky; fragments from unfinished works about A. Blok, I. Annensky, M. Tsvetaeva, B. Pasternak and others, polemical notes about N. Gumilyov, whom Akhmatova called “the most unread poet of the 20th century,” autobiographical prose from the unfinished book “My Half a Century” ", as well as reviews of Akhmatova and interviews with her.