Gumilev biography

Nikolai Gumilyov - the famous Russian poet of the Silver Age, creator of the school of acmeism, translator, literary critic and prose writer. A brief biography and work of Nikolai Stepanovich was born on April 3 in Kronstadt, in a noble family. The poet’s father is the ship doctor Stepan Gumilev, mother is an impoverished kind of Tver noble Anna Lvova. Nikolai Gumilyov grew up a sensitive and painful child.

He wrote the first poem at 6 years old. In the year, Nikolai entered the Tsarskoye Selo gymnasium, but, having studied very long, for health reasons, he was forced to switch to home schooling. Two years later, the family of the future poet moved to St. Petersburg, where Nikolai Stepanovich began to study in one of the best private secondary schools - Gurevich gymnasium. In the year, the Gumilev family moved to the Caucasus, to the city of Tiflis.

Nikolai Stepanovich received a certificate of maturity in the Tsarskoye Selo gymnasium, where he returned a few years later. At that time, the young poet could not boast of academic successes and was even on the verge of deductions. He was saved that the director of the gymnasium, the famous Russian poet Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky, highly appreciated the talent of Nikolai Stepanovich.

In the year, he published the first collection of poems “The Way of Conquistadors”, a year later - moved to Paris, where he listened to lectures on French literature, studied painting and traveled a lot. At that time, Nikolai Stepanovich published the literary magazine "Sirius", where he printed his works. Upon returning to Russia, Nikolai Stepanovich became a constant critic of the newspaper Schu.

In the fall of the year, Gumilyov made the first trip to the east. At the end of the year, he released the collection "Pearls". In the year, Nikolai Gumilyov and Anna Gorenko got married, and a year later another significant event occurred: the “Workshop of Poets” was created. Nikolai Stepanovich became one of the most significant poets of his time. The enthusiastic researcher of Africa, Gumilev made several expeditions to the African continent, where he studied local tribes.

He brought an extensive collection of exhibits for the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Excerpts from his travel “African diary” were first published in the year. At the beginning of the First World War, Nikolai Stepanovich volunteered to the Ulan regiment, where he receives two St. George Crosses as a reward for courage. He later switched to the service in the hussar regiment.

Until his death, Nikolai Stepanovich worked on translations of works of foreign poets. In the year, the Light was seen by the last book of the poet - Fiery Pillar.

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