Kena Vidre met Akhmatova, was friends with artists and left vivid memoirs – but did not have time to publish them

Ekaterina Vidre is a translator, editor and native of St. Petersburg. Her mother, Kena, was a philologist and editor at the Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and was also friends with many interesting people of her time. In the last 20 years of her life, Kena wrote essays about the Soviet era, her acquaintances and historical events (for example, about her meeting with Anna Akhmatova). Her works were published in the magazines Zn…