Biography Gumelev n

Nikolai Gumilyov: The posthumous scandals of Roman Timenchik “The biography of Nikolai Gumilyov numbers, as you know, a number of episodes, when his name became the reason for gossip and curvature, universal condemnation or at least almost unanimous bewilderment. The closest eyewitness of the formation of his reputation Anna Akhmatova stated with chagrin and some resentment that everything that happened to Gumilyov was reproached him, although the same circumstances in the life of other people were only good in the eyes of society.

The most famous scandal associated with the name of Gumilyov was his duel with Voloshin of the year. Unless, of course, not to consider his execution. And everyone, like me, strove to walk not along the sidewalk, but directly. The wind - the wind is the same - sharp, pierced me through all my skins. I put my document in a glove - a certificate and pass - and, like a wind, I felt this piece of paper in my palm.

We intended to get married at the beginning of next year, before the onset of Great Lent, but this next year was and began on January 9th in St. Petersburg. Then it happened that I left the gymnasium, where I was engaged in preparatory classes with kids, and barely passed a few steps, I heard a strong explosion towards the Kremlin; It turned out that it was an explosion of the carriage of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.

Memories of parents excerpt Lev Gumilyov “I, Lev Nikolaevich Gumilyov, was born in the year, in the fall, on October 1 in a new style. On this day, which is very rare, snow has come. I was born on Vasilievsky Island in the maternity hospital, but my parents lived in Tsarskoye Selo, in a small house that my late grandfather earned and made a small family house out of it.

In addition, my parents again possessed a small two-story house or rather, a house with a mesonin in the Tver province-in the native land of my grandmother, next to the village of Sleepnevo. He was then little familiar with my parents and arrived in a black business card, in a starchy collar, supporting cheeks. The heat stood, the guests drank tea in the garden under the Christmas tree, and it was terrible and sorry to look at the skinny straight person in black with a lifted, unbridled head.

He looked like that smoked siga, who was worn on a stick sticking out of his mouth, which my mother invariably treated our Sunday guests.

Gumilyova and A. About the people who stood at the origins of this movement.