DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2019-13-290-302

УДК / UDK: 821.161.1
Issue:

2019 №13

About the author:

Roman Timenchik, Prof., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract:

The article gives examples of textual, commentary and translation errors, the rooting of which leads to clogging of Akhmatova’s biography with phantom facts.

Keywords: falsified memoirs, rumors, speculations of biographers, amateurish literary criticism, interpretation of poetic dating, popular Akhmatova studies.
For citation:

Timenchik Roman. Notes of a commentator. 10. From false biographies of Akhmatova. Literary fact, 2019, no. 3 (13), pp. 290–302.

DOI 10.22455/2541-8297-2019-13-290-302

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