A monument to Anna Akhmatova has been set up on Robespierre Embankment, Saint Petersburg, 40 years after the death of the outstanding Russian poetess.
      
      According to the concept of the sculptor Galina Dodonova, the heroine of the Silver Age is looking over Neva at the notorious prison Kresty, where political prisoners were kept during Stalinist reprisals.
      
      The official unveiling of the monument will take place on December 18. The monument’s plaster model created by the sculptor will be unveiled on December 25 in the Kresty corridor leading to the prison church.
      
      The place for the monument was pointed out by Akmatova in her poem Requiem: she asked to put her monument “here, where I stood for three hundred hours, and where the door was not open for me”. During Stalinist repressions Anna Andreyevna spent a lot of time in prison queues to pass a parcel for her son Lev Gumilyov who was under examination.
      
      Source: itar-tass.com