Lev Gumilyov

AA bore her son, Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov (known as Lyova). The child turned out to be a burden for his twenty-three-year-old mother and his young father, as, apparently, they were incapable of leading family life...

In March of 1938 her son, Lev Gumilyov , was re-arrested and sentenced to death. He was ultimately released, but the seventeen months of his imprisonment were one of the darkest times of Anna's life...

In later 1945 Anna's son Lev returned home after spending six years in exile. Reunited, the family was close as never before. But in 1949 his mother's fear and desperation were reawakened when he...

The last years of AA 's life were anything but similar to the previous ones. In 1956 her son Lev Gumilyov was finally released from prison. After this, surpisingly enough, Anna and Lev quarrelled...

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...

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.

After her death her son's widow published, in collaboration with Alexander Panchenko , a selection from AA 's correspondence with Lev . Unfortunately their relationship was a painful one, accusatory on his side and placatory...

After her death her archive, contained in two suitcases and a wooden chest, passed to her son Lev , who was on bad terms with his mother when she died, and did nothing with the...