GUMILEV NIKOLAI (1886-1921) Shater [The Tent]: Poems. Revel [Tallinn]: Bibliofil, 1921. - 52, [4] p.; 15.5x11.5 cm.

In an illustrated publisher's cover. Cover, title page, and endpiece by artist N.K. Kalmakov. In very good condition. Slight wear on the corners of the cover. The collection "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 Nikolai 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 text of the Sevastopol edition is considered the final version of the collection in literary studies. On August 3, 1921, the poet was arrested by the Petrograd Cheka and soon executed in the outskirts of the city. Already on September 16, 1921, in the Revel literary-humorous collection "Appi! — Na pomoshch!" [Help! - To the Rescue!], the poem "Damaris" was published with an indication that the author was executed about three weeks ago by the verdict of the Petrograd Tribunal, and the text of the poem from the collection "Shater," published by the "Bibliofil" publishing house, was provided to the collection's editor for memorial publication. The collection itself was published at the end of the year based on the manuscript handed over to the publisher by N. Gumilev in June 1921. 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; Blum. No. 153.