I lit the cherished candles

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1889–1966) is a poet whose work is unconditionally reckoned with the Golden Fund of Russian Literature. “Akhmatova’s poetry for new people is not what is for us. We were perplexed, surprised, admired, argued and, finally, began to be proud of. They do not need our enthusiasm. They are not surprised because they came later, ”wrote philologist B. M. Eichenbaum in 1923.
This collection includes poems from the book “Running of the Time”, which were not included in the books of the poems of 1941-1966 and the poem “Requiem”, “by all earth” (“Kitezhanka”) and “Poem without a hero”. The texts are shifted according to autographs stored in state archives and private collections, as well as on the first publications in the periodical press. The features of the author’s spelling, punctuation of the original are preserved, and, if possible, the type of recording of the works is observed. Tom is equipped with a preface and notes prepared by N. I. Kraneva