‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in Personal Impressions

• Shortened version, ‘Conversations with Russian Poets’ (given as a Bowra Lecture), The Times Literary Supplement, 31 October 1980, 1233–6
• and (with additions), as ‘Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak’, New York Review of Books, 20 November 1980, 23–35 – this version repr. in The Proper Study of Mankind, The Soviet Mind and Robert B. Silvers (ed.), The Company They Kept, vol. 2, Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (New York, 2011: New York Review Books)
• excerpted as ‘Anna Akhmatova: A Memoir’ in The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer, ed. Roberta Reeder (Somerville, Massachusetts, 1990: Zephyr Press), vol. 2 – and in the one-volume edition (Somerville, Massachusetts, 1992: Zephyr Press; 2nd. ed., Boston, Massachusetts, 1994: Zephyr Press; Edinburgh, 1994: Canongate Press)
• trans. Dutch, French (in part), German, Hebrew, Polish, Spanish (in part), Russian

NB: the opening paragraph of the lecture as delivered was omitted from the published text