Akhmatova's Orphans Explained

Akhmatova Orphans (Russian: Ахматовские сироты) was a group of four twentieth-century Russian poets — Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Rein, Anatoly Naiman, and Dmitri Bobyshev — who gathered as acolytes around the poet Anna Akhmatova.^[1] Akhmatova called them her "magic choir", but after Akhmatova's death they were called "Akhmatova's Orphans".^[2]

See also

• List of Russian poets

Notes and References

1. Maxim D. Shrayer . March–June 1993 . Two Poems on the Death of Akhmatova: Dialogues, Private Codes, and the Myth of Akhmatova's Orphans . Canadian Slavonic Papers . 35 . 1/2 . 45–68 . Canadian Association of Slavists . 40869458 .
2. Book: St. Petersburg: A Cultural History . Volkov . Solomon . Bouis . Antonina W. . 1997 . Free Press . 978-0-684-83296-8 . 510 .