Figueroa Press, Revised and Expanded Edition. Los Angeles, CA., 2007
Originally published in 1994, the biography was recently updated in 2007 based on many valuable books and articles published since the first edition, including the diary of her lover Nikolay Punin, works using the KGB archives, Emma Gerstein’s Memoirs that contain important insights on Mandelstam’s relationship to Akhmatova, a biography on V. Garshin, who played an important role in her life, Akhmatova’s late notebooks, and Carlo Riccio’s unpublished writings on Akhmatova’s trip to Italy at the end of her life.
