Anna Akhmatova lived seventy-seven years. With her passing, the era of the “Silver Age” ended. Surprisingly, the poetess managed to remain an absolute European even during times of official (and deliberate) oblivion. One of the confidants dubbed her “a fairy-tale capricorn,” for Akhmatova’s life circle was outlined by a dotted line of friendships and meetings with Mandelstam and Modigliani, Isaiah Berlin and Joseph Brodsky, et cetera... Anna Andreevna’s memoirs, diary notes, selected articles, fragments of correspondence, what not always for publicity, what the poet keeps to himself is the content and essence of this book.