Gumilev N.S. (1886-1921), poet

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GUMILEV Nikolay Stepanovich (1886, Kronstadt - 1921, near St. Petersburg), poet, translator, critic. He spent his childhood in Tsarskoe Selo, from 1896 was in St. Petersburg, and studied at the Gymnasium of Y.G. Gurevich. In 1900-03 he was in Tiflis, then returned to Tsarskoe Selo, graduated (1906) from Nikolaevsky Gymnasium (director I.F. Annensky) (12 Naberezhnaya Street; memorial plaque). Studied at Sorbonne (1906-08) and at the Faculty of Law and the History and Philological Faculty of Petersburg University (1908-11 and from 1912; he didn't finish his courses). In his first collections of poems The Way of Conquistadors (1905), Romantic Flowers (1908), The Pearls (1910) - the way from Symbolism to the new original poetic style can be traced. He travelled to Africa four times during the period of 1908-13. In 1910 he married A.A. Gorenko (Akhmatova); until 1916 lived mainly in Tsarskoe Selo (Malaya Street, the building has not been preserved, present building 57); from 1912 also in St. Petersburg (17 Tuchkov Lane). In 1911 he founded and headed the so-called Guild of Poets, from which a new poetic movement - Acmeism grew a year later. The author of various collections: Alien Sky (1912), The Quiver (1915), Bonfire (1918), The Tent, The Pillar of Fire (both in 1921), To a Blue Star (1923, published posthumously). In 1909-17 he edited the Letters about Russian Poetry column (separate edition 1923) of Apollon journal. Wrote a number of dramatical pieces. His war experience (when the World War I of 1914-18 broke out, he volunteered to Uhlan Regiment, then 5th Hussar Regiment, awarded two St. George crosses) was reflected in Notes of a Cavalryman. In 1918-21 he worked for World Literature Publishing House, translated, lectured in various universities and literary studios. Took part in the functioning of the House of Arts (where he lived). In 1921 he was elected Chairman of Petrograd Department of All-Russian Union of Poets. Gumilev was arrested on a fabricated charge by the Petrograd Military Organisation on 24 August 1921 - sentenced to death, executed by shooting in Kovalevsky Forest near Petrograd. Main addresses in Petrograd: 10 Fifth Line of Vasilievsky Island (1914, memorial plaque), 5 Preobrazhenskaya (today Radishcheva) Street (1919-21, memorial plaque).

References: Козырева М. Г., Петрановский В. П. Основные места, связанные с жизнью и деятельностью Н. С. Гумилева // Николай Гумилев: Исслед. и материалы. Библиография. СПб., 1994. С. 626-631. T.M.Dvinyatina. Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich
Gorenko A.A. (see A.A. Akhmatova)
Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich
Gurevich Yakov Grigorievich
5th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Malaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 57
Radishcheva St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Tuchkov Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Козырева М. Г., Петрановский В. П. Основные места, связанные с жизнью и деятельностью Н. С. Гумилева // Николай Гумилев: Исслед. и материалы. Библиогр. СПб., 1994 Poets Guild
Apollon (Apollo), journal
World of Literature, publishing house, 1918-1924
Arts, The House of, literary society
Petrograd Fighter Organization
1921