“В 1921 году, в возрасте 35 лет, советским правительством был расстрелян, как контрреволюционер, талантливейший, а для некоторых даже гениальный, русский поэт, Николай Степанович Гумилев.„
“The son of a navy doctor, Nikolaj Gumilev was bom in 1886 in the arsenal city of Kronstadt. He started his literary career very early, and when he was twenty-two he had already published two collections of poems, The Way of the Conquistadors (1905) and Romantic Flowers (1908). He briefly studied Romance philology at the Sorbonne, and in 1909 he was one of the founders of the Petersburg literary review Apollo, which a few years later became the organ of Acmeism. The acknowledged leader of that movement, Gumilev also helped to establish in Petersburg a “guild” of young poets. It was in that period of time that he married the poetess Anna Akhmatova (from whom he was divorced in 1918) and published the most important collection of his youth, Pearls (1910). Obsessed by a spirit of adventure, and perhaps influenced by Kipling (as he was to be later influenced by D’Annunzio, to whom he addressed an ode during the Fiume affair), he dreamed of an African empire for Russia. After an earlier voyage, he returned in 1913 to Somaliland and Abyssinia, this time at the head of an ethnographical and geographical expedition organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences. He reflected his experience of the dark continent in many of his ensuing books, starring with Foreign Sky (1912), which contained, among many other things, a scries of Abyssinian songs.„
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Драматическое наследие Гумилёва не велико. Он написал шесть «пьес». Три из них — «Дон Жуан в Египте», «Актеон» и «Игра» — одноактные. «Игра» даже не акт, а «драматическая сцена».„
“Позвольте начать слово о поэте его словами:
О тебе, о тебе, о тебе!
Ничего, ничего обо мне.
В человеческой темной судьбе
Ты — крылатый призыв к вышине…„
“Gumilev’s poems on the theme of war have been both praised and condemned, but he is generally acknowledged as the outstanding Russian soldier-poet of the Great War.1„
“В № 17 нашего журнала за этот год была напечатана подборка стихотворений Н. С. Гумилёва и биографическая заметка о нем. В редакцию поступило много писем, в которых читатели просят более подробно рассказать о судьбе Николая Гумилёва. Выполняя их просьбу, мы публикуем эссе Героя Советского Союза, писателя В. В. Карпова, посвященное жизни и творчеству поэта.„
