From the Name Index to Akhmatova's Notebooks: To German
Articles from the author’s cycle “From the Name Index to Akhmatova's Notebooks” demonstrate the experience of extensive commentary on Akhmatova's working notes, organized around the names of characters entered on her notebooks’ pages. It is a kind of free Akhmatova encyclopedia, where the onomasticon combines different times of her long life. This (fifty-first in the cycle) article is organized around the “German theme” and is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the outstanding philologist Konstantin Azadovsky and concerns the characters, one way or another, touched upon in his scientific works. These are poets-Germanophones (V. Zubov, R.M. Rilke), translators of Akhmatova's poems into German (I. von Gunther, Felix Zelinsky, Frans Leschnitzer, Maximilian Schick), a German visitor (Heinrich Böll).