Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Anna Akhmatova" in English language version.
She was born Anna Gorenko by the sea in Bolshoi Fontan, near Odessa in Ukraine, to an unexceptional gentry family. Akhmatova's mother, Inna Stogova, was a descendant of a rich Russian landing family with strong ties to Kyiv, and her father, Andrei Gorenko, was a Ukrainian naval engineer descended from Ukrainian cossacks.