[1] As a writer she was "adopted" by the Polish-Russian journalist Osip Senkovsky who replied favourably to an unpublished translation that she sent him in 1842.
[1] In 1856 she created her own publication which was titled Collected Foreign Novels, Novellas and Stories Translated into Russian.
There were 344 different issues and it included the work of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Sand, Émile Zola and Anthony Trollope.
Some writers objected to how their work had been edited and Akhmatova's own stories were frequently changed or condensed before publication.
Akhmatova's stories are noted for having strong female leads who direct male characters through the narrative.