Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum
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It is located at 34 Fontanka River Embankment, and was opened in 1989 in Fountain House as a branch of the Dostoevsky Literary and Memorial Museum.
The poet Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko , better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova , was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Harrington p11...
(1889–1966) lived in the northern garden wing of the Fountain House in between 1918–20, and lived in the southern wing from the mid 1920s until February 1952. Today the museum is dedicated to her books and autographs of poets of the early 20th century.
25,000 people visitor the museum annually.