GUMILEV NIKOLAI (1886-1921) Stikhotvoreniya: Posmertnyy sbornik; [Verses: Posthumous Collection; Preface by V. Ivanov]. 2nd edition, revised. St. Petersburg: Mysl', 1923. - 128 pages; 18x13 cm. Edition of 2,000 copies.

In a typographic publisher's cover. In good condition. Wear on the corners of the cover, tears along the spine of the cover, minor loss of fragments on the spine. 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. 756.