About the poet Nikolaj Gumiljow, who was to become her first husband, she said: "Whether I love him, I do not know, but I believe so." About her homeland, where her poems were not published for decades, and her relatives were exiled and murdered, she said: "I do not know of any country where poetry would be loved more than in ours and where it would be needed more than here." Anna Akhmatova has become the most famous poetess of the USSR and Russia, revered by her readers and highly regarded by her peers. This volume gathers her hundred most beautiful love poems. They deal with joy and sorrow, expectation and disappointment, fulfillment and dreams: "I live from the moon, you from the sun." Jutta Bauer has made the anthology an ideal gift book for present and future lovers with her distinctive illustrations.