Open Access«Your Little Aspen’s Trembling outside my Window…» Correspondence Between A. A. Akhmatova and M. S. Petrovykh
Author(s) -
Anastasia Ivanovna Golovkina,
Olga Efmovna Rubinchik
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
russkaâ literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0131-6095
DOI - 10.31860/0131-6095-2022-1-85-118
Subject(s) - friendship , window (computing) , service (business) , literature , art , computer science , psychology , world wide web , social psychology , business , marketing
The purpose of this article is to introduce into the academic discourse a piece of correspondence between A. A. Akhmatova and M. S. Petrovykh, a poet and a translator, whose literary work was highly appreciated by Akhmatova. Their friendship lasted from 1933 up to the time of Akhmatova’s death in 1966. however, the letters analyzed in this paper were written between 1956 (?) and 1964, when the authors got less concerned that the Soviet Secret Service might open and inspect their epistles. The correspondence illustrates the warm relationship between the authors, and the efforts made by Petrovykh to help Akhmatova to submit her manuscripts to publishers.