St. Petersburg of Nikolai Gumilev

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Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov, a Russian poet of the Silver Age, founder of the Acmeism school, prose writer, translator, and literary critic. The first husband of Anna Akhmatova, father of Lev Gumilyov. He undertook two expeditions to eastern and northeastern Africa in 1909 and 1913. On August 28, 1921, he was executed by firing squad on charges of participating in the anti-Soviet conspiracy of the "Petrograd Combat Organization of Tagantsev."

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