AKHMATOVA, Anna (1889-1966) Typescript Poem, Signed. 1945
Quarto. Two-page carbon typescript manuscript entitled From The Leningradski Elegies, signed by Akhmatova and dated: 1945. Fontanny Dom. September 2. (The date presumably refers to the date of composition and not to the creation of this particular document, which is more likely to have been made in the early sixties.) Signed by Akhmatova in blue pencil. During the many years in which the divine Anna was prohibited from publishing her poetry, she would circulate her manuscripts among her circle of friends in this samizdat form: five carbons could be made at a time, and the distribution of such typescripts often provided the only contact many poets in her situation could establish with the deep tradition of Russian poetry and with its vital pulse. The present typescript emanates from a member of the inner circle. Very good.
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