The work by Dr. Kraineva on the poems of the famed Anna Akhmatova continue with our help at the State Library Archives in St. Petersburg. Dr. Kraineva’s initial focus was on the poet’s famous work “Poem without a Hero.” Akhmatova’s work is particularly hard to condense into a final format as she wrote on whatever paper was available to her and erased and wrote over it. Its final form is digitized for use by the UC Digital Library. The archives are in Moscow as well as St. Petersburg.  Our money has gone to provide a computer, printer, and related expenses. She will soon be starting on another major poem. This is an important cultural project and we supply her money as needed from our special fund having it hand delivered by Evgeny Maksakov.