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Anna Akhmatova (Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, 1889-1966)

Lot 67
15.12.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 67 | Anna Akhmatova (Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, 1889-1966)
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£ 10 000 – 15 000
Anna Akhmatova (Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, 1889-1966)
Typescript signed ('A. Akhmatova') with autograph revisions of Poema Bez Geroia [Poem without a Hero] (here subtitled 'Triptch 1940-1955'), Moscow, 15 June 1955
In Russian. 46 pages, 209 x 140mm, numbered 1-44, 48, 49, autograph cancellations, emendations and additions in purple ink on 38 pages, a few other annotations in pencil and blue ink; stapled in a booklet, green paper covers, inscribed on verso of title to 'A.A.X.', Leningrad, 29 November 1955; with a photograph reproduction of a portrait drawing of Akhmatova, inscribed to the same on the verso, Leningrad, 1958; also a second photograph, and a related typescript. Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 May 1996, lot 152.

Corrected typescript of Akhmatova's magnum opus. Akhmatova's careful corrections to almost every page of the poem often attend to details of line-spacing, numbering of stanzas and other typographical matters, but also add or amend a number of words and phrases; more subsantial additions include four lines on p.24, a single line on p.27, 9 lines on p.33, one line on p.34, four lines on p.35, one line on p.36 and a concluding stanza of seven lines facing p.44.

Akhmatova worked on the autobiographical Poem without a Hero for more than twenty years, beginning in 1940 during the siege of Leningrad. Her longest and most structurally and thematically complex work, it evokes the ghosts of the pre-revolutionary period of her youth and literary debut. It was not formally published in Russia until after her death, but the present typescript is a significant witness to the circulation of the text even 7 years before its completion, and indicates the form it had reached at this date, before the completion of several sections of the final text (notably the 'Third and Last' section).
Artist:Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
Place of origin:Russia
Auction house category:Letters, documents and manuscripts
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