Russian director Alexey Yurgaitis made the documentary film "The Gumilyov Mysteries"
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Nikolay Gumilev
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev was a Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer. He was a co-founder of the Acmeist movement. He was the husband of Anna Akhmatova and the father of Lev Gumilev. Nikolai Gumilev was arrested and executed by the Cheka, the secret Soviet police force, in 1921.
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culture · Russian poet and literary critic (1886–1921) · poet · writer · military officer · translator · literary critic · Africanist · explorer · bretteur · also Nikolay Gumilev, Nikolai Gumilev, Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev, Nikolai Gumilyov, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev, Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov
Born 3 April 1886 · Died 26 August 1921 · Q311033
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An English translation of his verse drama Gondla was published by the Irish poet and diplomat Philip McDonagh and a production toured in Ireland
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1921· 2 entries
Died 1921-08-26.
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Was arrested by the Cheka on charges of participation in a nonexistent monarchist conspiracy known as the "Petrograd military organization"
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1920· 1 entry
Gumilev co-founded the All-Russia Union of Writers
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1916· 1 entry
Wrote a verse play, Gondla, which was published the following year; set in ninth-century Iceland, torn between its native paganism and Irish Christianity, it is also clearly autobiographical, Gumilev putting much of h
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1910· 1 entry
Gumilev fell under the spell of the Russian Symbolist poet and philosopher Vyacheslav Ivanov and absorbed his views on poetry at the evenings held by Ivanov in his celebrated "Turreted House"
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1909· 1 entry
Had a duel with Voloshin over the affair
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1908· 1 entry
His new collection Romantic Flowers appeared
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1905· 1 entry
Published his first collection of poetry entitled Conquistadors' Way
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1886· 1 entry
Born 1886-04-03.
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