title: TAORMINA AND TAURIDA (ABOUT SICILIAN AWARD OBTAINED BY ANNA AKHMATOVA-HORENKO)
abstract: She was a celebrity of 1910s -1920s. But then, after a severaldecade-long period of non-publication, she became half-forgotten. She was still highly rated but (as they said) "in narrow circles". She was attained (in her own words) and publicly anathematized by a special decree issued by the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1946 And yet she -Anna Andreevna Akhmatova-Horenko (1889-1966) -lived up to see her public and literary resuscitation.Here is how Irina Niko