Russian Research Institute of Agronomy

Deprived of poetry, no longer working at the Agronomy Institute library, and banned from the bohemian life, Anna developed an interest in Aleksandr Sergeevych Pushkin's works and in architecture; she also translated from French, Italian...

The newly-weds settled in a humble servant's room in the Fontannyy Dom, the Fountain House, in Petrograd (not the Anna Akhmatova Museum now housed in the building). The Shileiko family found itself in poverty and...

During these years Anna needed to stay at her friends' places since she had resigned from the Agronomy Institute library and could no longer benefit from an apartment through her work. She lived at Vladimir Shileiko