Literature
Anna Akhmatova
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Lived here
Gorky Sanatorium
The poet stayed here as one of the prominent cultural figures hosted by the scholars’ sanatorium.
Traces in other cities
- Saint Petersburg
- Sheremetev Palace — Lived in Fountain House (Sheremetev Palace) wings 1918–20 and mid-1920s–1952; Akhmatova memorial museum is here.
- Moscow
- Ardov House on Bolshaya Ordynka — She stayed for long periods with the Ardov family here during her Moscow visits from 1938 to 1966.
- Saint Petersburg
- House of Radio — She was among the writers who spoke at the Leningrad Radio microphone during the siege. ([visit-petersburg.ru](https://www.visit-petersburg.ru/leisure/places/tp-194699-dom-radio/?utm_source=openai))
- Saint Petersburg
- Kresty Prison — Stood in prison queues at Kresty for her son Lev Gumilev; the experience underlies Requiem (‘I have learned how faces fall…’).
- Saint Petersburg
- Арт-подвал «Бродячая собака» — Regular reader/performer at the Stray Dog cabaret in the 1910s.
Follow the story on foot
These addresses are scattered across the city. Our routes and quests put them in an order that works.