GUMILEV NIKOLAI (1886-1921) Shater [The Tent]: Poems 1918. Sevastopol: Tsekh poetov [Poets' Workshop]; Gos. tip. Sevastop. politotdela [State Printing House of the Sevastopol Political Department], 1921. 42, [6] p.; 16x11 cm. One of Nikolai Gumilev's last collections published during his lifetime.

In a typeset publisher's cover. In good condition. Slight fading along the edges of the cover, detached cover, faint stains on the lower field of the cover. The anthology "Shater" was first published in the summer of 1921 in Sevastopol on low-quality paper and with significant omissions in the texts of the poems. The collection was dedicated to Nikolay Sverchkov, the nephew of N.S. Gumilev and his companion during his African travels. In the same year, a second edition of the collection was published in Revel, which included the poems in their entirety. However, the Sevastopol edition's text is considered the final version of the collection in literary studies. One of Nikolai Gumilev's last collections published during his lifetime. 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. 745.