“As she breathes, so she writes,” B. Okudzhava said about Bella Akhmadulina. “This is a rare quality, it speaks of the authenticity of the combustion.” This property is inherent in both poetry and prose of Akhmadulina. Her work became one of the most striking and significant phenomena in Russian literature of the second half of the 20th century. The book offered to your attention, along with famous poems and early stories, includes poems of recent years, the story-diary “Non-Chain”, essays and notes about Nabokov, Pasternak, Akhmatova...