Poets

Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev was a Russian poet.

Nikolay was born on April 3rd in Kronshtadt, to the family of the doctor S.Y. Gumilev. In 1887, the Gumilev family moved to Tsarskoe Selo, where Nikolay began studying at the School of Gurevich. In 1900, the Gumilev family moved to the city of Tiflis in the Caucases in order to improve the children's health. Nikolay attended the best school in the area, Tiflis One.
It was here that his first poem, entitled "I ran from the cities to the forest" was published in the magazine "Tiflis Listok". The poem was signed "K. Gumilev".

In 1903, the Gumilev family moved back to Tsarskoe Selo, where Nikolay entered the 7th class at the Nikolaevsky Tsarskoe Selo School. The Director of the school was the poet 'I.F. Annensky'. It was at this time that Gumilev began his acquaintance with his future wife A. Gorenko, the poetess who would come to be known as 'Anna Akhmatova'.

Having finished school in Tsarskoe Selo, Gumilev travelled to Paris. He studied French literature and art at the Sorbonne. While he was there, he had time to publish the first collection of his poems in 1905. It was entitled "Path of the Conquistadors". Gumilev thought of it as unsuccessful, and never had it republished.

In Paris in 1907, Gumilev began publishing a bi-weekly literary magazine called "Sirius," in which he printed his own compositions under various pseudonyms ("Anatoly Grant", "K-o", and "K"), and the compositions of the young poetess Anna Akhm..