The Akhmatova Journals (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lydia Chukovskaya
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary memoir
- Time of Work: 1938-1941
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Anna Akhmatova, Lydia Chukovskaya, Lev Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Diary
- Subjects: Love or romance, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Russia
In Russia, poets enjoy the kind of popularity that Western cultures reserve for film and rock stars. Like many other Russian children, Lydia Chukovskaya read and memorized poetry from an early age, and her favorite poet was Anna Akhmatova. Lydia’s father, Korney Chukovsky, a well-known writer of children’s stories and a literary critic, took his thirteen-year-old daughter to meet Akhmatova, and Lydia was overwhelmed that she was meeting her idol in person. In 1938, Chukovskaya met Akhmatova once again, in Leningrad, and she was to become Akhmatova’s close friend and confidante....
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