She was allowed to attend the school because of her father's position, a rare opportunity for a young working class girl in pre-revolutionary Russia.
[1] Barkova's early poetry attracted the attention of the Bolshevik literary establishment, including the leading critic Aleksandr Voronsky and the Commissar of Enlightenment Anatoly Lunacharsky.
Later, Maria Ulyanova, the sister of Vladimir Lenin, found Anna a position at the paper Pravda, and helped her to put together a second collection of poems that was never published.
Разрываем зубами, когтями, Убиваем мать и отца, Не швыряем в ближнего камень- Пробиваем пулей сердца.
Не надо—ну так изволь: Подай мне всеобщую радость На блюде, как хлеб и соль.
She lived out the remainder of her life in relative poverty in a communal flat in the Garden Ring, where she preserved her enthusiasm for books, friends, and conversation.
[1][3] In 2017, a film about her life was released by Czech Television titled 8 hlav sílenství (8 Heads of Madness), starring the popular singer Aneta Langerová.