Akhmatova - Images for Rekviem

 

 

The Kresty Prison in St. Petersburg (Leningrad)

 

The front gate of the Kresty Prison

 

The Neva River

 

Black Marias from the USSR

 

A Siberian gulag

 

An icon shelf

 

"The Morning of the Streltsy Execution" by Vasily Surikov

 

The Catherine Palace from the Tsar's Garden (Tsarskoye Selo)

 

A censer in use

 

A small group of the NKVD (the secret police),
Stalin's tool for putting down dissent

 

A grief so fundamental
that the term itself means "pity" (pieta)

 

A statue of Akhmatova, in the center of St. Petersburg

 

A statue of Akhmatova, staring at the Kresty Prison
from across the Neva River (St. Petersburg)