Akhmatova's Orphans
Akhmatova's Orphans (Akhmatovskiye siroty) was a group of four twentieth-century Russian poets from Leningrad — namely Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Yevgeny Rein (b. 1935), Anatoly Naiman (1936–2022), and Dmitri Bobyshev (b. 1936) — who gathered as acolytes around the poet Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966).
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Akhmatova's Orphans (Akhmatovskiye siroty) was a group of four twentieth-century Russian poets from Leningrad — namely Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Yevgeny Rein (b. 1935), Anatoly Naiman (1936–2022), and Dmitri Bobyshev (b. 1936) — who gathered as acolytes around the poet Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966).
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Akhmatova called them her "magic choir", but after her death they became known as her "orphans", a term which was coined by Bobyshev himself. Nayman had also worked as a secretary for Akhmatova and a collaborator to her translations. Their style has been defined as "neo-Acmeist", with distinct traits from the authors of the early movement. In 2024, filmmaker and Russian-literature scholar Yuri Leving directed a film focusing on the quartet, titled Akhmatova's Orphans: Disassembly.
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- 1.Maxim D. Shrayer. Two Poems on the Death of Akhmatova: Dialogues, Private Codes, and the Myth of Akhmatova's Orphans. Canadian Slavonic Papers. Canadian Association of Slavists. 35. 1/2. 45–68. March–June 1993. 40869458.
- 2.Volkov, Solomon. St. Petersburg: A Cultural History. Free Press. 510. 1997. 978-0-684-83296-8.
- 3.Iocca, Federico. [Leningrad] Anna Akhmatova house. Culture del Dissenso. 23 June 2018.
- 4.Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Screening of the Documentary: 'Akhmatova's Orphans: Disassembly'. cafoscariNEWS. 11 September 2024.
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