Blue dress for a poet

Sit close in a cozy nook,/ Look on with cheerful expression:/ Here’s my blue cover notebook/ With childish rhyming indiscretions.

The evening light, 1915

Anna Gorenko Achmatova is one of the most representative figures of Russian poetry of the 20th century. Muse and lover of Amedeo Modigliani.

This famous portrait by Nathan Alt'man is one of the works of "REVOLUTIJA. From Chagall to Malevich, from Repin to Kandinsky", at the MAMbo (Museum of Modern Art) in Bologna.

The exhibition traces the course of the Russian avant-garde of the time between 1910 and 1920. More than seventy works, absolute masterpieces from the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, are on display and tell the styles and dynamics of development of artists, including Nathan Alt 'man, Natal'ja Gon?arova, Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Valentin Serov, Aleksandr Rod?enko and many others.