Anna Akhmatova’s Petersburg

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Stories and Myths about Akhmatova

Internal Immigrants 1924

Fontanka River Embankment, 2, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191187

This is how the Silver Age was dying...

Wild Girl 1889-1905

Pushkin (Station), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 196608

Born in the same year as Charlie Chaplin, Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata," and the Eiffel Tower

The Birth of a Decadent Poetess 1899-1905

Leontyevskaya St., 17, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 196627

I did poorly in the lower grades, then well. I always resented the gymnasium.

The Birth of the Decadent Poetess 1899-1905

Leontyevskaya St., 17, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 196627

I did poorly in the lower grades, then well. I always resented the gymnasium.

The Relationship of Two "Egotists" 1907-1916

Malaya St., 57, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 196601

Her marriage to Gumilev was considered "doomed" in her family, and, as it would turn out, not without reason.

Pharmacists and the Stray Dog 1911-1912

pl. Iskusstv, 5, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

Any "wanderer," but necessarily a creative person, could come into the basement and warm up.

Tuchka 1912-1914

Tuchkov Lane, 17, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 199053

Аллея была снежной и короткой.

Pagoda 1915

Bolshaya Pushkarskaya St., 3, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197198

Heartfelt Attachments

Revolution, the End of Youthful Illusions 1917-1918

Botkinskaya St., 17, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 194044

On the Drawbridge On a day that has now become a holiday, My youth came to an end...

Fountain House - North Wing 1919-1921

Fontanka River Embankment, 34litA, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191014

Having left the Gumilevs, I lost my home.

Fountain House - South Wing 1924-1952

Fontanka River Embankment, 34, Liteyny, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191014

The idyll did not happen...

Open House 1952-1961

Kavalergardskaya St., 2/48, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191015

Students from the Oxford literature department have arrived and are demanding a meeting with me. I can't very well receive them in a communal apartment...

Fear and Losses 1921

Fontanka River Embankment, 18, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191028

In August 1921, Blok, trapped by the new regime, died; Gumilev was executed by shooting. And Anna's older brother, Andrey Gorenko, unable to withstand the trials that befell the family after the revolution, took his own life.

The Last Refuge 1966

Ozyornaya St., 52a, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197733

Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova died on May 5, 1966.

Booth 1955-1966

23 Osipenko St., Komarovo (Saint Petersburg), Leningrad Region, Russia, 197733

In 1955, when Akhmatova's poems began to appear in print again, Litfond provided her with a small house in Komarovo, at 3 Osipenko Lane, which she herself called the "Booth." The dacha became a center of attraction for the creative intelligentsia.

Writer's Skyscraper

191186, Griboedov Canal Embankment, 9, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

The St. Petersburg Writers' "House on the Embankment"

Adamini House - The Jester's Shelter

Mars Field, 9, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

The southernmost building of the block on the western border of the Field of Mars and the very first on the odd-numbered side of the Moika River Embankment. Named after its founder, merchant Antonov, the building is sometimes called the Antonov House, while its widely recognized name, the Adamini House, comes from the name of its architect, Domenico Adamini.