Poems of Nikolay Gumilev
A COLLECTION OF POEMS
BY
NIKOLAY
GUMILEV
(Born 1886, Died 1921)
(Translations from Russian)
Nikolay Gumilev was one of the founders of the Acmeist movement.
Much of his early verse was inspired by his travel in Africa and is marked
by a liking for the exotic and a cult of heroism and adventure. Between 1910
and 1918 he was married to the poetess Anna Akhmatova. He fought with
distinction in the First World War, and become openly anti-Bolshevik after
1917. Accused of conspiracy against the Soviet Government, he was shot by a
firing squad. His later poetry is more earnest and tragic, with flashes of
prophetic intuition.
From "The Heritage of Russian Verse," by Dimitri Obolensky
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