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Also Known As Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev
Born April 15, 1886 • Kronshtadt • Russia
Died August 24, 1921 (aged 35) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Movement / Style Symbolism • Acmeists
Notable Family Members spouse Anna Akhmatova
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Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam
Russian poet
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Karamzin, portrait by V.A. Tropinin, 1815; in the State Literature Museum, Moscow
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Karamzin
Russian author
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Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov
Russian writer
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet
Blok
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
Russian poet and dramatist
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Andrey Bely
Russian poet
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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
Russian poet
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Aleksey Mikhaylovich Remizov
Russian writer
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Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius
Russian poet
Émile Verhaeren, drawing by Lucien Wolles, c. 1900; in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Émile Verhaeren
Belgian poet
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Charles Van Lerberghe
Belgian poet
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Francis Viélé-Griffin
French poet
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Yevgeny Petrov
Soviet humorist
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Russian author
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist

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