The School of Reading Nikolai Gumilev: Seven Students (I. Pribludnyi, D. Kedrin, O. Mochalova, B. Pasternak, O. Mandelstam, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Akhmatova)

Abstract

Elaborating literary scholar Boris Tomashevsky’s actionable metaphor “schools” of readers, this historical study picks up seven ‘graduates’ from the depth of poet Nikolai Gumilev’s followers.