Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov (April 3, 1886, Kronstadt — August 26, 1921) was a Russian poet of the Silver Age, born into a noble family of the Kronstadt ship's doctor Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilyov (1836–1910). His mother, Anna Ivanovna, née Lvova (1854–1942). His grandfather, Panov Yakov Fedotovich (1790–1858), was a church clerk in the village of Zheludevo, Spassky Uyezd, Ryazan Governorate.
In childhood, Nikolay Gumilyov was a weak and sickly child: daily headaches drove Nikolay to frenzy, and heightened sensitivity to sounds, smells, and tastes made his life practically unbearable. During exacerbations, the boy was completely disoriented in space and often lost his hearing. Despite this, he often participated in games with peers, where he constantly tried to lead. He preferred solitude or the company of animals — a "red dog," a parrot, guinea pigs — over communication with children. He avoided people. According to Anna Akhmatova, the future poet wrote his first quatrain about the beautiful Niagara at the age of six.
He entered the Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium in the fall of 1894, but after only a few months, due to illness, he switched to home schooling. In the fall of 1895, the Gumilyovs moved from Tsarskoye Selo to Petersburg, renting an apartment in the merchant Shalin's house at the corner of Degtyarnaya and 3rd Rozhdestvenskaya streets. In 1894, Gumilyov enrolled in Yakov Gurevich's gymnasium in Petersburg. He did not like studying: he much preferred reading adventure novels and drawing. He consistently received poor grades in foreign languages; in 1900, he was held back a year, and his parents hired a tutor. The tutor noticed Gumilyov's inclination toward zoology and geography. In 1900, his older brother Dmitry was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and the Gumilyovs moved to the Caucasus, to Tiflis. Due to the move, Nikolay enrolled for the second time in the fourth grade at the 2nd Tiflis Gymnasium, but after six months, on January 5, 1901, he was transferred to the 1st Tiflis Male Gymnasium. Here, in the 1902 "Tiflis Leaflet," N. Gumilyov's poem "I Ran to the Forest from the Cities..." was published for the first time.
In 1903, the Gumilyovs returned to Tsarskoye Selo, and Nikolay Gumilyov again enrolled in the seventh grade of the Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium. He studied poorly and was once on the verge of expulsion, but the gymnasium director I. F. Annensky insisted on allowing the student to repeat the year: "All this is true, but he writes poetry." Annensky had a significant influence on the literary tastes of the budding poet; he was also influenced by the works of Nietzsche and the poems of the Symbolists. In the spring of 1906, Nikolay Gumilyov finally passed his final exams and on May 30 received his graduation certificate, which contained only one grade of "excellent" — in logic.
A year before graduating from the gymnasium, his first book of poems, "The Path of the Conquistadors," was published at his parents' expense. This collection received a separate review from Bryusov, one of the most authoritative poets of that time. Although the review was not flattering, the master concluded it with the words: "Let us suppose that the book is only the 'path' of a new conquistador and that his victories and conquests lie ahead," and it was after this that correspondence between Bryusov and Gumilyov began. For a long time, Gumilyov considered Bryusov his mentor; Bryusov's motifs are traced in many of his poems (the most famous being "The Magic Violin," which, however, was dedicated to Bryusov). The master long patronized the young poet and treated him, unlike most of his students, kindly, almost fatherly. Gumilyov graduated from the gymnasium at the age of twenty in 1906, and a year earlier his first book of poems, "The Path of the Conquistadors," was published. This collection received a separate review from Bryusov. Although the review was not flattering, the master concluded it with the words: "Let us suppose that it is only the 'path' of a new conquistador and that his victories and conquests lie ahead," and it was after this that correspondence between Bryusov and Gumilyov began.
After graduating from the gymnasium, Gumilyov went to study at the Sorbonne.
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