On 29 May 1921, he wrote to Anatoly Lunacharsky: "Blok is Russia's finest poet. If you forbid him to go abroad, and he dies, you and your comrades will be guilty of his death".
He wrote literary essays on the works of several writers, including Alexander Pushkin, George Bernard Shaw and Marcel Proust.
Anatoly Karpov | Anatoly Sobchak | Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky | Anatoly Vasiliev | Anatoly Marchenko | Anatoly Chubais | Anatoly Pepelyayev | Anatoly Lunacharsky | Anatoly Kuznetsov | Anatoly Artsebarsky | Anatoly Trofimov | Anatoly Solovyev | Anatoly S. Chernyaev's | Anatoly Rybakov | Anatoly Petrovich Andriyashev | Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov | Anatoly Osmolovsky | Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov | Anatoly Maltsev | Anatoly Kulikov | Anatoly Kornukov | Anatoly Efros | Anatoly Chernyaev | Anatoly Adamishin |
Anna's early poetry attracted the attention of the Bolshevik literary establishment, including the leading critic Aleksandr Voronsky and the Commisar of Enlightenment Anatoly Lunacharsky.