“Do you know what love is? Real love? Have you loved so passionately that you were ready to step into the flames of hell? I am yes. With these words begins the famous film story dedicated to the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Thus began the story of the fleeting and tragic love of two geniuses of the beginning of the century: Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani.What do the Russian poetess and the Italian artist have in common? Anna Andreevna herself wrote about this novel as follows: "... everything that happened was for both of us the prehistory of our life: his - very short, mine - very long."The author of this book is Boris Mikhailovich Nosik - He spent the first decades of his life in Russia, but for many years he prefers to live in France. He, like no one else, was able to understand the incredible love story of Akhmatova and Modigliani. It was her author who considered it fundamental in the biography of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova.