“Yes, I must admit, he was not alien to the old, now ridiculous prejudices: love for his homeland, consciousness of a living duty to it and a sense of personal honor. And what was even more old-fashioned was that he was always ready to pay for these three points with his own life,” Kuprin wrote about Nikolai Gumilyov. When Russia entered the First World War, the poet could not stay away and went to the front as a volunteer. Gumilev passed the test of war with honor. And although he was not destined to know the joy of victory, he won another battle with himself. But most importantly, among the blood, dirt, cruelty and hatred, Nikolai Stepanovich remained a knight, faithful to old prejudices. He was one of the few who knew how to poeticize war , and perhaps the only writer of the Silver Age who left such a detailed and honest story about his service in the warring army. His “Notes of a Cavalryman” were published in newspapers in 1915–1916 and aroused great interest among the reading public. In this book, with the help of various texts and documents, the poet’s combat path from the first days of the war to the Brest Peace was completely recreated.