Akhmatova's Orphans () was a group of four twentieth-century Russian poets from Leningrad â namely Joseph Brodsky (1940âÂÂ1996), Yevgeny Rein (1935âÂÂ), Anatoly Naiman (1936âÂÂ2022), and Dmitri Bobyshev (1936âÂÂ) â who gathered as acolytes around the poet Anna Akhmatova (1889âÂÂ1966). Akhmatova called them her "magic choir", but after her death they became known as her "orphans", a term which was coined by Bobyshev himself. Nayman had also worked as a secretary for Akhmatova and a collaborator to her translations. Their style has been defined as "neo-Acmeist", with distinct traits from the authors of the early movement.
In 2024, filmmaker and Russian-literature scholar Yuri Leving directed a film focusing on the quartet, titled Akhmatova's Orphans: Disassembly.