Рассказы о Анне Ахматовой

The bright and multifaceted personality of Anna Akhmatova appears from the pages of the memoirs of A.G. Naiman, who for a number of years happened to be Anna Andreevna’s literary secretary, work with her on translations of foreign poetry, and talk about life, literature, politics. Here, for the first time, more than 20 letters from Akhmatova are published, many of her judgments are given, helping to more accurately understand the poet's work. Naturally, much in the book bears a pronounced personal, subjective imprint, which affected the assessment of certain people, events.
The materials published in the Supplement, being documents of the era, reflect different, sometimes sharply polar, views on creativity of A. Akhmatova.

"The book was written thirteen years ago, then it was printed almost entirely in a magazine and immediately came out as a separate edition. Then it was published in England, the USA, Germany, France and China. The immediate impetus to take it up was the urgent requests of acquaintances and unfamiliar people to publish on the centenary of Akhmatova her letters addressed to me, at least that part of them that is not only personal in nature.I began the book as a free commentary on these letters, the title STORIES ABOUT ANNA AKHMATOVA is the most direct and uncomplicated designation of what I was doing while writing."

Anatoliy Naiman