This collection includes the best examples of Akhmatova’s work - from early acmeistic poems from the collections “Evening”, “Rosary” and “White Flock” to later poems, as well as the famous “Poem without a Hero”. Love and loneliness, the tragedy of an artist who shared the terrible fate of his country, and philosophical reflections, rethinking of historical events and a unique dialogue with the past - these are the main themes of these poems, marked by beauty and noble grace.