One Unusual Telegram from Anna Akhmatova
Journal: Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology
Year: 2022

A telegram from A. A. Akhmatova dated August 30, 1961 to the outstanding dog-trainer Lidiya Ivanovna Ostretsova concerning the death of her sheepdog Akbar was the impetus for writing this article. It appears to be the only telegram in Akhmatova’s epistolary written in response to the animal’s death. There is a legendary and inaccurate version of this telegram on the Internet; the document is cited according to the original in this paper. The article contains a brief presentation of the topic “An