Top 6 Nikolay Gumilev Quotes

Russian poet (1886-1921)

Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Russian: Николай Степанович Гумилёв; 15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1886 – 26 August 1921) was a Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer. He was a co-founder of the Acmeist movement. He was the husband of Anna Akhmatova and the father of Lev Gumilev. Nikolai Gumilev was arrested and executed by the Cheka, the secret Soviet police force, in 1921.

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Pen Names: Анатолий Грант

Alternative Names: Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev • Nikolai Gumilyov • Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev • Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov

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And like bees in a deserted hive
Dead words smell bad.

И как пчелы в улье опустелом
Дурно пахнут мертвые слова.

That crazy hunter is alien to you
Who having climbed the naked cliff
In drunken happiness, in unaccountable anguish,
Lets go an arrow right at the sun.

И вам чужд тот безумный охотник,
кто взойдя на нагую скалу —
в пьяном счастье в тоске безотчетной
прямо в солнце пускает стрелу.

Sun, burn the present in the name of the future, but have mercy on the past!

Солнце, сожги настоящее
Во имя грядущего,
Но помилуй прошедшее!

Top 6 Nikolay Gumilev Quotes

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