On June 23, the Mariinsky Park in Kiev opened a monument to the poetess Anna Akhmatova. This is reported by Inter. The author of the monument is the capital sculptor Alexander Stelmashenko. The location of the monument is not accidental. One day, while walking with her sister and nurse near the Mariinsky Palace, little Anya found a lyre-shaped pin. Nanny then said to Ana: "It means you will become a poet". The prophecy has come true, Anna began to write poems as early as 11 years. Anna Akhmatova (real name - Gorenko) - one of the symbols of the Silver Age. Her genius attracted the brightest contemporaries and threw her into the thick of events that later became history. She herself was part of the story, reacting to the vicissitudes of fate by poems. Akhmatova was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 Author: 1.