Akhmatova’s Article Pushkin’s Last Fairy Tale: The History of Creation
Journal: Literary Fact
Year: 2025

The article is devoted to the history of the creation of the first Pushkin-related article by Anna Akhmatova, published in the journal Zvezda in 1933. The article examines the reasons that prompted Akhmatova to professionally study the problems of Pushkin’s work, including, among others, her forced poetic silence. The stages of Akhmatova’s study of Pushkin’s “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel” are described in detail, and it is also mentioned who helped her in writing the study: namely, Grigory Ge