Bees in a Deserted Hive
Daniel Soar: Nikolai Gumilev, 27 April 2000
The Pillar of Fire
by Nikolai Gumilev, translated by Richard McKane.
Anvil, 252 pp., £12.95, August 1999,0 85646 310 8 Show More
by Nikolai Gumilev, translated by Richard McKane.
Anvil, 252 pp., £12.95, August 1999,
“... In 1916, Private Nikolai Gumilev and two of his superiors came under fire on the bank of the River Dvina north of St Petersburg; the two officers jumped into the nearest trench. Gumilev wouldn’t be rushed: still in range of the battery on the other side of the river, he lit a cigarette and smoked it ... ”
