Anna Akhmatova is a unique phenomenon of the Silver Age. Witness the change of epochs — she survived two world wars, the revolution and the siege of Leningrad. Akhmatova wrote her first poem at the age of 11 — from then until the end of her life she did not stop studying poetry. The mystery of her work lies in the ability to guess the intonation of time and convey it so accurately and piercingly that the heart stops and the breath stops.The book includes the pearls of Anna Akhmatova's poetry — her early poems from the collections "Evening", "Rosary" and later mature works.