Her marriage to Gumilev was considered "doomed" in her family, and, as it would turn out, not without reason.

Any "wanderer," but necessarily a creative person, could come into the basement and warm up.

Аллея была снежной и короткой.

All of this is true, but after all, he writes poetry.

I know death is not here – not on the battlefield. It, like a thief, awaits me unexpectedly, suddenly. I see it in the distance in the meager and dim dawn.” This doesn’t make sense. How could he have guessed the “meager and dim dawn” at the abandoned training ground where the Chekists would execute him seven years later?

Gumilev begins to think about new opportunities for literary work. There were no sources of income left other than literary ones, neither for him nor for his family: bank accounts had been nationalized, and the money that had been in those accounts had become dust.

He is brave, wise, and courageous like a knight. He goes straight to the goal, overcoming obstacles.

Among the 833 residents of the former capital prosecuted for involvement with the "Petrograd Combat Organization" was the poet Gumilev. He was arrested on the night of August 4, 1921, and three weeks later, at dawn on August 25, was executed as part of a group of 60 other "conspirators."

On December 5, 1909, according to the new style, the last known duel of poets took place on the Black River in Saint Petersburg. At the very spot where 72 years earlier Alexander Pushkin and Georges d'Anthès had faced each other in a deadly duel, 23-year-old Nikolai Gumilev and 32-year-old Maximilian Voloshin shot at each other.

On August 26, 1921, Nikolai Gumilev was shot near Petrograd. It is believed that Nikolai Gumilev was the first Russian writer executed by the punitive organs after the Bolsheviks came to power. From this execution, it has become customary to start the "martyrology" of Russian literature under Soviet rule. I don’t know how "honorable" such a distinction can be considered, but Gumilev was not actually the first on this list. As early as 1918, on the shore of Lake Valdai, in front of six young children, the famous pre-revolutionary literary critic and publicist of the newspaper *Novoye Vremya*, Mikhail Menshikov, was shot. The Cheka’s verdict stated that he was executed "for obvious disobedience to Soviet power," which was a lie, because after the closure of *Novoye Vremya*, Menshikov, left without work, quietly lived with his large family in his house on Valdai and was not involved in politics.