“There long flames flutter like two golden wings...” Readers of this book have a fantastic opportunity to overcome space and time, stand on the bastions of Kronstadt, sit until dawn in the Stray Dog cabaret, witness an African hunt and see with their own eyes attack of cavalrymen, hear declarations of love and smell the almost elusive smell of perfume used by women of the nine hundred and tenth years. And everywhere next to them will be Nikolai Gumilev, the famous poet, fearless warrior, man of honor. His poems in this biographical composition sound differently than in thick one-volume books and collected works; they sound as they sounded in the poet’s lifetime collections, without having yet lost connections with the events that gave rise to them.