Akhmatova's close friends lived in the house on Bolshaya Ordynka Street — playwright and author of satirical works Viktor Ardov and his wife, artist Nina Olshevskaya. Osip Mandelshtam, who at that time lived with them in a writer's house in Nashchokinsky Lane, introduced Akhmatova to the Ardovs, from where they moved to Bolshaya Ordynka. The poetess and Olshevskaya had especially warm friendly relations, which lasted more than 30 years, to whom Akhmatova was going to devote a chapter in her biography. Their friendship continued until the last days of the poetess, and in 1966 Nina Antonovna was next to Akhmatova in a cardiology sanatorium, where she died.

In a house on Bolshaya Ordynka Street, Akhmatova lived in a room that was considered her personal. This apartment is also notable for the fact that Olshevskaya's son, the famous Soviet actor Alexey Batalov, painted her portrait at the request of the poetess, which is still in the Ardovs' house today. Osip Mandelshtam, [Mikhail Bulgakov] (http://kudago.com/msk/place/bulgakovskaya-moskva/), Joseph Brodsky, Boris Pasternak and many other famous cultural figures of Togo often visited the house on Ordynka time.

In the summer of 1941, the legendary meeting between Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva took place here. The two great poetess had known each other in absentia since the 1910s, but had never met. Tsvetaeva dedicated poems to Akhmatova and regularly sent her gifts. Anna Akhmatova also reflected in her work Marina's extraordinary talent and her difficult fate. A noteworthy fact: in the late 1950s, in the same apartment on Bolshaya Ordynka, Akhmatova met Marina Tsvetaeva's daughter, Ariadna Efron, and told her about her acquaintance with her mother. At the Ardovs, the poetess accidentally met with her son Lev Gumilyov, who, having freed himself from the Gulag, was passing through Moscow on his way to Leningrad and went to visit his mother's friends, not knowing that she over there.

In 1964, Akhmatova went from this house to Italy, where she was awarded the Etna-Taormina Literary Award, and a year later to England for the solemn award of her doctorate from Oxford University . In the entire history, only two Russian writers have received this honor: Turgenev and Chukovsky. From here, she was also taken to a cardiosanatorium near Moscow, where she was supposed to undergo rehabilitation after the fourth heart attack. After a short time, the poetess died in this sanatorium.

Not so long ago, it was decided to open a museum of Anna Akhmatova in this house. In the courtyard of the house there is a monument to the poetess, and just behind there is a [graffiti portrait] (https://kudago.com/msk/place/graffitiportret-anny-ahmatovoj/) with lines from Akhmatova's works.