Nikolay Nikolayevich Punin

In the autumn of 1938 AA left Nikolay Nikolayevich Punin , possibly because of her growing fondness for Vladimir Georgievich Garshin , a well-known Soviet physician. She went as far as consenting to take Garshin's...

Although Nikolay Nikolayevich Punin was never divorced from his wife, AA lived with him for fifteen years, longer than with any other man. According to Amanda Haight , their marriage was never officially registered.

The late 1920s and middle 30s were marked by massive repressions and imprisonments undertaken by the Communist regime now headed by Joseph Stalin . Battered by the arrests of Osip Mandelstam , a fellow writer...

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

AA took the courageous step of writing to Stalin (Much respected Josif Vissarionovich) with a dignified petition that he should free Punin and her son Lev from prison.