From the Index to Akhmatova’s Notebooks: Two Persons from Bogomolov’s List

Abstract

The article from the author's cycle “From the Index to Akhmatova's Notebooks” demonstrates the attempt of an extensive commentary on Akhmatova's working notes, organized around the characters present on the pages of her notebooks, a kind of free Akhmatova encyclopedia, where different periods of her long life are combined in the onomasticon. A comment of this kind snatches out representative fragments of Akhmatova's epoch, but the degree of presence of different persons in the list, or even their absence, does not always reflect their weight in Akhmatova's biography. The present article is devoted to two poets – Yuri Verkhovsky and Aleksandr Tiniakov (the latter was also a literary critic and published essays about Akhmatova’s poetry). Some publications and studies by late Nikolay A. Bogomolov were dedicated to these two poets. The present article is in memoriam N.A. Bogomolov.

Keywords

• anna akhmatova
• yuri verkhovsky
• aleksandr tiniakov
• nikolay bogomolov
• comment
• notebooks
• biography studies