Poet, translator, literary critic, nominee for the Nobel prize (1965 and 1966), Anna Akhmatova is one of the most significant authors of Russian literature of the XX century. I wrote about myself that I was born in one year with Charlie Chaplin, Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata" and the Eiffel tower. Witness of the century, survived two world wars, the revolution and the siege of Leningrad. The Creator of this book of the female soul. Beloved and beloved... Wife, mother, wounded by the long wait for her son... a Strong woman, a citizen of her country that has survived a lot — all this is Anna Akhmatova and her poems.