Akhmatova Orphans () was a group of four twentieth-century Russian poets — Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Rein, Anatoly Naiman, and Dmitri Bobyshev — who gathered as acolytes around the poet Anna Akhmatova. Akhmatova called them her "magic choir", but after Akhmatova's death they were called "Akhmatova's Orphans". See also List of Russian poets References Russian literary movements Russian poetry Anna Akhmatova