GUMILEV NIKOLAI (1886-1921) Farforovyy pavil'on: Kitayskiye stikhi [The Porcelain Pavilion: Chinese Poems]. 2nd edition, revised. St. Petersburg: Mysl', 1922. - 28, [2] pages; 17x13 cm. Edition of 3,500 copies.

In a typographic publisher's cover. In good condition. Slight water stains on the front cover, upper margin of the title page trimmed (2 cm). Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (1886-1921) was one of the central figures of the Silver Age, the founder of the Acmeist school in Russian poetry, a prose writer, playwright, translator, literary critic, traveler, and Africanist. He conducted two expeditions to Eastern and Northeastern Africa in 1909 and 1913. He was executed on August 26, 1921, based on fabricated charges of participation in the anti-Soviet conspiracy of the "Petrograd Combat Organization of Tagantsev." He was posthumously rehabilitated. Bibliography: Turchinsky, p. 157; Lesman, No. 742.