The biography of any researcher is inextricably linked with his work, interests and passions. Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov lived a difficult, substantial and dignified life. After him there were books that help our contemporaries to understand the essence of the processes that took place on our land and not only on it, many centuries ago. And the secret is revealed to a few - why are we like that.
Noble origin
The proletarian revolution was not carried out in order to preserve the existing privileges of the ruling class of exploiters and oppressors. New ideas, projects and people came to the historical stage. Lev Nikolaevich Gumilyov was born in 1912. Noble family. Love of parents. A serene and, it is important to note, well-fed childhood. The child grew up smart and active. And not surprisingly, his father is a cult poet Nikolai Gumilev, his mother is the famous poetess Anna Akhmatova. When Levushka was only six years old, her parents divorced, leaving the boy in the care of her grandmother, Anna Ivanovna Gumileva.
While receiving primary education, Leo experienced the changes taking place in society on his own experience. In the county town of Bezhetsk, in the Tver province, where he lived with his grandmother until he came of age, they were hostile to the noble offspring. In one of the local schools, they simply did not give him textbooks. The son of a "class alien element" did not rely on such luxury. That was what he was called after the news came of the death of his father. Grandma had to transfer her grandson twice from one school to another.
A dry biography is silent about what stress the boy had to endure during these years. In one of the local schools, Alexander Pereslegin, a longtime friend of the family, worked as a literature teacher. With this elderly man, a teenager developed friendships that remained throughout his life. A taste for history and literature to a large extent was formed by Lev Nikolaevich in communication with a wise teacher. Eighteen years after graduation, the young man came to Leningrad to enter the Herzen Pedagogical Institute. However, the application for admission was not accepted from him - only black work was entrusted to representatives of the nobility.
