Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev , 1886-1921, Russian poet. With his wife, the poet Anna Akhmatova , and Gorodetsky Gumilev, he founded the Acmeist school of poetry in 1912. He traveled widely in Europe and, especially, in Africa, and his poetic imagery is enhanced by the frequent use of foreign and exotic elements. The Pillar of Fire (1921) contains much of his best work. Gumilev was executed by the Bolsheviks for alleged conspiratorial activities.
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The Akhmatova Journals.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...tyrannical regime. Both Chukovskaya and Akhmatova were victims of that regime. Akhmatova's first husband, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (1886-1921), founder of the "Poet's Guild" and one of the leading Acmeists (a movement which defined...
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A Boring Story: Chekhov and Germany.
Magazine article from: Intertexts; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...dying character on a mission to the town of Kharkov. Nikolai Stepanovich has been expecting to die for the last six months and...what turns out to be an unexpectedly peaceful night, Nikolai Stepanovich is summoned back to Moscow by the news of his daughter...
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The church bells of Easter: Chekhov & the path of conversion.(Article)(Anton Chekhov)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 10/24/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...and I." Renamed "A Boring Story," it concerns one Nikolai Stepanovich, an eminent and elderly professor of medicine who diagnoses...brings to this crisis the detachment of the scientist. Are Nikolai Stepanovich's new thoughts and feelings merely "morbid" symptoms...
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Gumilev, Nikolai Stepanovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
GUMILEV, NIKOLAI STEPANOVICH (1886 – 1921), poet executed by the Bolsheviks. Born in Kronstadt and educated at the Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev was a major Silver Age poet and a victim of Bolshevik repression...
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Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev , 1886-1921, Russian poet. With...poet Anna Akhmatova , and Gorodetsky Gumilev, he founded the Acmeist school of...contains much of his best work. Gumilev was executed by the Bolsheviks for...
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Akhmatova, Anna Andreyevna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...in St. Petersburg. She married poet Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev in 1910, and the couple visited western...poets. See also: dissident movement; gumilev, lev nikolayevich; gumilev, nikolai stepanovich; intelligentsia; mandelshtam, osip...
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Acmeists
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...poets started in 1912 by Sergei M. Gorodetsky and Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev as a reaction against the mysticism of the symbolists...clarity of expression. The leading Acmeists were Gumilev, Anna Akhmatova , and Osip Mandelstam . Bibliography...
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