For a long time his name was under a total ban. Even for keeping his portrait you could end up in a camp. Why did Gumilyov occupy such an exceptional place in the cultural life of Russia just a few years after his tragic death? What is there, in Gumilev’s poems, that really drives generation after generation of his readers crazy, forcing some to burn out everything connected with the name of the poet with a red-hot iron, and others to preserve his legacy with confessional enthusiasm, as they preserve the greatest property , shrine? Maybe the secret is that, according to A. I. Pokrovsky, “Gumilyov was a poet who created from his dream an extraordinary, like a dream come true, but completely genuine life. He dreamed of exotic countries - and lived in them; I dreamed of the unimaginably bright colors of a fabulous nature - and enjoyed them with my own eyes; he dreamed of breathing the wind of the sea - and he breathed it. From his life, with the power of dreams and will, he made a bright, multicolored, full of movement, sparkle and sparkle, a truly magical holiday "...