Anna, starting out

Raisa and Stepan Mazepa with daughters Anna and Elena, New York, 1962

At Moscow School No. 33, 1971

The three schoolfriends: Masha, Anna, and Elena

Anna graduates from secondary school, 1975

Marriage, April 1978

A family: Alexander, Ilya, Anna and Vera, summer 1980

The children. Anna’s favourite photograph

At a party with her husband Alexander, early 1990s

With Alexander and Martyn the Doberman, late 1990s

With her sister Elena, London, 2002

On the flight to Tura, where a small delegation from Novaya gazeta unveiled a monument at the geographical centre of Russia, December 2000

Vnukovo Airport, Moscow, February 2001, returning after her detention by Russian troops

The Nord-Ost siege. Anna and others take water and juice to the hostages, Moscow, 25 October 2002

Presentation of the Global Award for Human Rights Journalism by Amnesty International, London, July 2001

Olof Palme Prize ‘For Courage and Composure While Working in Difficult and Dangerous Conditions’, Stockholm, January 2005

The last image of Anna Politkovskaya, captured by a supermarket CCTV camera, 7 October 2006

March 2002