Nikolay Gumilyov

Nikolay Gumilyov was an influential Russian and Soviet poet, literary critic and military officer who was arrested, jailed and executed by the Cheka, the secret police organization that became the KGB.

Anna Akhmatova was his wife.

Nikolay Gumilyov Media

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  Gumilev during his senior years in gymnasium

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  Nikolay Gumilev, Anna Akhmatova and their son Lev Gumilev, 1913

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  Portrait of Gumilev with African Background by Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya, 1909