Akhmatova's Orphans


Akhmatova Orphans was a group of four twentieth-century Russian poetsJoseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Rein, Anatoly Naiman, and Dmitri Bobyshev — who gathered as acolytes around the poet Anna Akhmatova. Akhmatova called them her "magic choir", but after Akhmatova's death they were called "Akhmatova's Orphans".