Leningrad, 1961
Locations in Harold's Library
- Staying Alive (book) with the title "Our Own Land" (en)
- page 298
- in "My people"
- Credits: Richard McKane (translator)
- First line: We don't wear it in sacred amulets on our chests. ©
This work has the following connections with other works:
- ‘I’m not one of those who left their land’ • in 'Our Own Land', Akhmatova use as a quote from her earlier poem as epigraph: "There is no one in the world more tearless, / more proud, more simple than us."
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