The outstanding actress Alla Demidova, who has repeatedly performed the works of Anna Akhmatova from the stage, once decided to explore the secret script of one of the most mysterious works of Russian literature – "Poems without a Hero". It contains encrypted names and events, without knowing about which, the reader is unlikely to be able to penetrate into the depths of the text and understand its true meaning.What kind of people are hiding behind the fictitious names of the characters, what are their relationships, how are the events described connected with genuine historical phenomena — A. Demidova gives her answer to these questions. The actress admits that she "sifted through herself" letters, poems, diary entries, memoir prose of the poet, memoirs of his contemporaries. And this work, which provided rich material for reflection, resulted in the book "Akhmatovskie mirrors".