To the 130th anniversary of Nikolai Gumilyov. A creative biography of the Poet with a capital P, one of the greatest creators of the Silver Age, whose place in the Pantheon of Russian literature next to Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Blok, Akhmatova. “With a word they stopped the Sun, / With a word they destroyed cities...” Gumilyov wrote in his program poem . And all his life he proved his words with Deeds. The Russian “conquistador”, fearless traveler, pioneer, front-line officer, Knight of St. George, sentenced to death for participating in an anti-Bolshevik conspiracy and not flinching in the face of death, Nikolai Gumilyov became a martyr of Russian Truth, a legend of Russian Literature, an icon of Russian Poetry. This book is a complete biography of the brilliant poet, whose best epitaph was left by Vladimir Nabokov: “You died proudly and clearly - you died, as the Muse taught. Now, in the silence of the Champs, he speaks to you about the flying Copper Peter and about the wild winds African - Pushkin."