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WOLFSON COLLEGE OXFORD

Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin in Leningrad in 1945Paintings by Janet Q Treloar, rws

Preview Sunday 10 June 2018 12 noon to 3 pm

The exhibition will be opened at 12 noon by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon,Principal of Somerville College

There will be a short illustrated talk at 12.30 pm, ‘The Guest from the Future: artistic treatments of the meetings between Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin’,

by Henry Hardy, Isaiah Berlin’s principal editor and one of his literary trustees

Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford ox2 6ud

The exhibition continues until 29 June. Open daily from 10 am to 7 pm, subject to College commitments. Visitors are advised to ring the College Lodge on 01865 274100 beforehand.

Akhmatova’s window in the FountainHouse, with lamp and the glow of the stovewhere she destroyed somany pages of herwork