“Wild girl” is what Akhmatova was called as a child. “Descendant of the Horde Khan” - that’s what she called herself. Many men, many hobbies, always fans. If we analyze the numerous memoirs of her contemporaries and compare the facts, then Anna Akhmatova appears capricious, cold and selfish. If in her harmonious, deep poetry scatterings of precious uniqueness sparkle, then in Anna Andreevna as a person, alas, the banal traits of a woman who is far from being the most intelligent, skillful, generous and moral prevail. Did Anna of All Rus' manage to change in the wake of her great poetry? Did her son finally appreciate the belated sacrifice of an inattentive mother? Which of her husbands did she really love, and which were just a background to her unusualness. What kind of relationship did Anna Andreevna have with Gumilev and Modigliani? All this is discussed in the new book by Lyudmila Boyadzhieva, who took a very ambivalent approach to the image of the great poetess.