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1 Lev Gumilyov
2 Grey-Eyed King
3 "In 1962, her dacha was visited by Robert Frost."
4 Chukowskaya
5 Ustinov

[edit] Lev Gumilyov

Their son, born in 1912, was named Lyov to rhyme with the surname Gumilyov;

What the heck this rhyming thingy could mean? AFAIK, he is known as Lev Gumilyov (Гумилёв). Could it be a fantasy of an english speaker based on a variant of transcription Lev Gumilev (Гумилев), later "fixed" into "Lyov Gumilyov"? mikka (t) 21:09, 5 September 2005 (UTC) I agree -- it makes no sense. Let's chop it. --Mefistofele 04:01, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grey-Eyed King

There are many translations of Akhmatova's works into English. It would be appropriate to give credit to the translator after the poem. Samba 21:15, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Not only that, but this translation seems to be copyright. Can't use it without permission... translation source ( I will modify it and make it more exact anyway, this should avoid copyright issues, and I believe this does not fall under the original research provision.) --Mefistofele 03:59, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "In 1962, her dacha was visited by Robert Frost."

This wasn't her dacha (she never had a dacha). Here is how poet Joseph Brodsky describes the visit: "she [Akhmatova] was much amused by the entire matter. It all turned out rather comical. Frost requested to meet Akhmatova because he knew that both of them were candidates to the Nobel Price that year. This was also obviously known to the Writer's Union administration. When the idea of a meeting was brought up the organizers realized that bringing Frost to see Akhmatova is impossible. What will he say when he sees her "shack"? This... doghouse? What will the journalists who are going to accompany Frost say? So the meeting was arranged to take place at the academic Alekseev's dacha. They brought Anna Andreyevna there by car. The place was hell let loose - an enormous gathering of idiots, informers, and Writer's Union juniors, which is often one and the same. Anna Andreyevna told later: "Imagine if you will: on the one hand sits Robert Frost, all hung up with every imaginable and conceivable medal and decoration that there are. And there on the other hand sit I, all hung up with every conceivable dog there is. And the conversation goes as if nothing happens. Up until the moment when he asks me "What do you do, madame, with the trees growing on your plot? I, for instance, make them into pencils". Here I couldn't take it any more and told the translator: "Tell Mr. Frost that if I was to cut down a tree on 'my plot' I would have to pay 6,000 rubles in fines". (From "Dialogues with Joseph Brodsky", by Solomon Volkov (1998)

D. Reider

http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Joseph-Brodsky-Twentieth-Century/dp/0743236394/sr=8-1/qid=1157536807/ref=sr_1_1/104-3616308-3279961?ie=UTF8&s=books)

she never had a dacha

Actually, she did. Late in life, after Khrushchev attacked Stalin's excesses (Stalin had had her blacklisted for being visited by Isaiah Berlin, whom Stalin said was a spy), she was awarded a small government pension and a small dacha in the country where she received visitors. --Michael K. Smith 18:31, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chukowskaya

What is the reference for Lydia Chukowskaya accompanying Akhmatova to Europe in 1965? In "Notes on Anna Akhmatova" (a kind of a protocol written by Chukowskaya of almost every meeting that they had since 1936 till Akhmatova's demise), there are no details of the trip and in other section Akhmatova tells her stories of the trip (which would be unlikely if Chukowskaya was also there).