About the book: 2007 / A gambling traveler who visited Africa when it was mortally dangerous, a fearless warrior whose actions on the battlefield were marked with the highest award - the St. George Cross, man honor, who considered it beneath his dignity to renounce his comrades and was shot as an accomplice in an anti-government conspiracy, a brilliant poet, whose works lived in the memory of readers, although almost seven decades after his death were not republished, a mystic, a visionary, a thinker - all this is Nikolai Gumilyov, one of those the rarest poets in world literature, whose poems coincide down to the smallest detail with the life of the author.