Anna Alexandrovna Barkova (Russian: ?´??? ??????´??????? ?????´??), July 16, 1901 – April 29, 1976, was a Soviet poet, journalist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, and writer of fiction.
She was imprisoned for more than 20 years in the Gulag.
In 2017 a film about her life was released by Ceská Televize, titled 8 hlav sĂlenstvĂ (also known as 8 Heads of Madness), starring the popular singer Aneta Langerová; it's mainly about her life in the camps and the women she loved .