make the next step and talk about the Akmeists.

A challenge to imagination, a collision with an alien force on the way to Damascus saying "I need your clothes, your shoes and your motorcycle" - what next? The Acmeist answer is "reflection over the collision"; perception of the act of perception, an insight inside the creative act, and a realistic "who we the humans are" as opposed to the brave Symbolist "we are deities and heroes".

This is the first time we are presenting Anna Akhmatova.

This meeting is for Russian learners and non-speakers. Its official language is English.