Akhmatova and emigrantica

The paper is dedicated to several episodes of a broad and so far poorlystudied subject— Anna Akhmatova’s connections with the Russian emigration. Varioussources on the Russian emigration (press, documents, correspondence, personalevidence, etc.) are extremely important to recreate the perception of Akhmatova’sworks by Russian émigré critics and readers; besides they make important contributionto the biographical studies. The first section is devoted to Akhmatova’s version of thecauses for Anastasia Chebotarevskaia’s suicide in 1921. Akhamatova believed thatFedor Sologub’s wife and a writer Anastasia Chebotarevskaya committed suicidebecause of her unanswered love to Grigory Lozinsky, who short time before had leftRussia. Lozinsky’s forgotten public response to Chebotarevskaya’s death — a shortpiece published in Berlin newspaper Golos Rossii (Voice of Russia) is cited in thepaper. The second section is dedicated to Akhmatova’s situation during the 1922repressive measures against intellectuals and to the reaction of the émigré press to therumors about Akhmatova’s possible exile or expulsion from Russia.