Falsification of Anna Akhmatova’s Manuscripts as Problem of Textual Criticism
Journal: Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology
Year: 2023

The article provides an overview of the falsification of Anna Akhmatova’s since the mid1990s, when the first forgeries of Akhmatova’s manuscripts appeared, up to the early 2020s. A periodization of falsifications of various types is proposed, the history of attempts to identify the forgeries and prevent their inclusion into the heritage corpus is outlined. The first forgeries of Anna Akhmatova’s manuscripts can be considered unique: these were rather attempts by falsifiers to claim the co-author