ARTINFO - Anna Akhmatova: Under KGB house arrest in her tiny apartment in the former Sheremetyevo palace, the poet would scribble a new poem, have her friend and biographer Lydia Chukovskaya memorize it, then burn it in an ashtray.

Anna Akhmatova: Under KGB house arrest in her tiny apartment in the former

Sheremetyevo palace, the poet would scribble a new poem, have her friend and

biographer Lydia Chukovskaya memorize it, then burn it in an ashtray.

Collage by Balint Zsako