Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam was a Soviet writer, translator, educator, linguist, and memoirist.
Mandelstam in 1925
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, known by her pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian and Soviet poet. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and 1966.
Nadezhda Mandelstam
…years later, she was able to work with other writers to have Osip Mandelstam's works published. Nadezhda Mandelstam was practically unfamiliar with Anna Akhmatova before meeting her in Tsarskoye Selo. Their first meeting took place in the fall of 1924, after Nadezhda and Osip had moved from Moscow to Leningrad…
Inna Gorenko and Andrey Gorenko with their children Irina, Inna, Anna, Andrey 1893.
Anna Akhmatova with her husband Nikolai Gumilev and their son, Lev, 1915
Anna Akhmatova in 1914, by Savely Sorin [ru]
Portrait of Anna Akhmatova by Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya, 1914