Nikolay Gumilyov

Between the years 1917 and 1918 AA developed romantic feelings for Vladimir Kazimirovych Shileiko (or Shileyko) , an old friend, a scholar of the ancient Middle East and a poet. He wanted Anna to marry...

These sorrowful years destroyed the lives of many of Anna's immediate family—her sister Iya was suffering from tuberculosis, her brother Viktor disappeared, and Andrey committed suicide. Nikolay Gumilyov was accused of counter-revolutionary activities and was...

While describing her husband as a dragon in her poems, she mentions an angel and a true lover who helps her escape from the prison of marriage. Amanda Haight believes that AA was referring to...

Fourteen-year-old AA ran into Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov (nicknamed Kolia), another young aspiring poet aged seventeen, when she was shopping for Christmas tree ornaments.

After repeatedly rejecting marriage proposals from Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov , and after he had repeatedly attempted suicide, twenty-year-old AA married him in Kiev.

Gumilyov had always discouraged AA from writing poetry, but when he read these poems on his return from Africa he was astonished and impressed. From then on he loved and supported her writing; she insisted...

It was originally well reviewed (by the author' husband, Gumilyov , among others, although a few months after it appeared he was already thinking about divorcing her). But at the end of the year...

She worked on these forty-six poems during the six months, from September 1910 to March 1911, that her new husband was in Africa.Mikhail Kuzmin contributed an introduction. Some of the poems had already...

During the years 1936-41 Russia was swamped by raging arrests and executions; millions were sent to concentration camps. AA lost many of her contemporaries and dear friends. Amid fear and desperation, her Muse, suppressed by...

AA published her first poetry volume, Evening, through the Poets' Workshop associated with her husband, Gumilyov . Three hundred copies were printedand several reprints were called for.