Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev was a Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer. He was a co-founder of the Acmeist movement. He was the husband of Anna Akhmatova and the father of Lev Gumilev. Nikolai Gumilev was arrested and executed by the Cheka, the secret Soviet police force, in 1921.
Gumilev during his senior years in gymnasium
Nikolay Gumilev, Anna Akhmatova and their son Lev Gumilev, 1913
Portrait of Gumilev at African background by Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya, 1909
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian poet, one of the most significant of the 20th century. She reappeared as a voice of Russian poetry during World War II. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in 1965 and received the second-most (three) nominations for the award the following year.
Akhmatova in 1922 (portrait by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin)
Anna Akhmatova with her husband Nikolay Gumilev and their son, Lev, 1915
Anna Akhmatova in 1914
Portrait of Anna Akhmatova by Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya, 1914