Twain, Anna & Mody (Akhmatova and Modigliani)

From the series The Artist & the Model. Episode from the Life of Amedeo Modigliani and Anna Akhmatova.
"… Without knowing it, Slavik brought me up into a state of some kind of continuous trance. Amazing way he acted on my imagination: it was a mere nothing suffices to make it play out with incredible force… .Then one day I was reading on the Internet about the friendship of Anna Akhmatova with Amedeo Modigliani and looking at their photos. I fancied that Slavik looked like the last person. And the soul raced to heaven.. .
Poems by Akhmatova, dedicated to Modigliani, reached the heart. A stingy story of proud Anna about their relationship was like a garden grate, over which exuberantly soared shoots of my imagination…
… I was so excited that I even painted the picture about them. And all because of slight resemblance of my idol with the long-dead genius."
(An excerpt from G. Dobrovolskayas story "The Bulgarian Open Air")