Leaves from a diary. Prose. Letters

In 1965, immediately after the death of Anna Akhmatova, came to her house to describe and organize the remaining files, the employee of the manuscript Department of the State Public library L. A. Mandrykina. For two decades, L. A. Mandrykina was the permanent custodian of Akhmatova's manuscripts. Everyone who trained in the years of publication of the texts of Anna Akhmatova, enjoyed a generous helping of Lyudmila Alekseevna.
The scientific issue, which involved itself Mandrykina, was prose Akhmatova - she belongs to the first publication of plans and excerpts from unwritten memoirs and autobiographies Akhmatova's "Leaves from a diary"; released in 1987, the two volumes of A. A. Akhmatova, she had prepared the section "Autobiographical prose". All this was preparation for a large study on the prose of Anna Akhmatova.