'Do you know what love is? True love? Did you love so fiercely that you were ready to step into the flames of hell? I am, yes.' With these words begins the famous film news dedicated to the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Thus began the story of the fleeting and tragic love of two geniuses of the beginning of the century: Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani.
What do a Russian poetess and an Italian artist have in common? Anna Andreevna herself wrote about this novel as follows: "... everything that happened was for both of us the prehistory of our lives: his - very short, mine - very long."
The author of this book is Boris Mikhailovich Nosik, who spent the first decades of his life in Russia, but has preferred to live in France for many years. He, like no one else, was able to understand the incredible love story of Akhmatova and Modigliani. It was her author who considered her fundamental in the biography of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova.