The great Russian poet, translator and literary critic Anna Akhmatova, one of the most significant figures of Russian literature of the XX century, is represented in the album. The collection of the Russian Museum contains lifetime portraits of Akhmatova and the men around her (Nikolai Gumilev, Lev Lurie, Nikolai Punin), executed by remarkable masters of the first half of the twentieth century — Nathan Altman, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Peter Miturich, Kazimir Malevich and others.