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You have one letter and one name to speak-do you save Gumilev or your son?
A poet with one letter and one name to speak stands outside a Petrograd execution site-do you save Gumilev or your son?You have one letter and one name to speak-do you save Gumilev or your son?In this episode, we trace the life and last year of Nikolai Gumilev, from his childhood in Kronstadt to his travels in Africa and service in World War I, and the fraught Petrograd of August 1921 where a single bureaucratic day would be wrong for ninety-three years. What choices made a celebrated poet into a target of the Cheka, and what would you do at that crossroads?Person: Nikolai GumilevDate: August…
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