Akhmatova's Booth

Akhmatova's Hut is the poet's dacha in Komarovo (Zelenogorsk), located at 3 Osipenko Street. During the summer months of 1963 and 1964, Anna Akhmatova listened here to sonatas by Beethoven and Vivaldi, and to Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet, while an old tube radio receiver "Rekord" stood opposite the wooden bookshelf in her room. In 2004, the building was restored, and a 2001 report mentioned that Joseph Brodsky used to fetch water from the well near this house. Akhmatova noted that arranging just one living room in such a structure required being an extraordinary architect.