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Nikolay Gumilev

Died in 1921

Nikolay Gumilev (1886-1921), born in Kronstadt, published his first collection in 1905. He married the poet Anna Akhmatova and founded with Sergey Gorodetsky the Guild of Poets, from which the Acmeist movement emerged. He made several journeys to Africa. Enlisted in the cavalry in 1914, he twice received the Cross of St George. Arrested in August 1921 in the Tagantsev affair and accused of having taken part in a plot against Soviet power, he was shot on 26 August 1921.

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