N S Gumilyov isn’t well-known in English… poetry is notoriously hard to translate. Nikolai Stepanovich loved wordplay, and that’s almost impossible to render in another language. In the above quote, he played on the fact that мир means both “peace” and “world” in Russian… you can only trick out the meaning from the context. There’s much of that sort of thing in Gumilyov’s works… it’s why so many Russian-speakers love his poetry and writing.
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Click here for a bio of D V Davydov, a soldier-poet of the Patriotic War of 1812 period. Until his death, Denis Vasilyevich retained an amazingly young heart and character. His cheerfulness was contagious and he was an exciting person to be around; in intimate conversation, he embodied cordial friendship.
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Click here for a bio of A N Radishchev, a novelist and poet of the late 18th-century. I M Born said of Aleksandr Nikolayevich:
He loved truth and virtue. His humanity made him ardently long to illumine all of his brethren with the radiant light of eternity.
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