Sergey Belyakov is a historian and literary scholar specializing in the biography and scientific legacy of Lev Nikolaevich Gumilyov. For about twenty years, he has been studying the passionarity theory of ethnogenesis created by the scientist.
The son of Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilyov, a prisoner of Norilsk and Kamyshlag, who survived four arrests and two prison terms, a soldier of the Great Patriotic War and a participant in the storming of Berlin, Lev Nikolaevich Gumilyov is a historian with a unique fate and a strange personal life full of secrets and mysteries. Gumilyov wrote mainly about the Ancient world and the Middle Ages, but the theory he created explains the present day better than others and allows one to forecast the future of Russia and Europe, China and the Muslim world. โI only found out that people are different, and I wanted to explain why there were and will be bloody scandals between peoples,โ Lev Gumilyov said. His ideas are necessary for us today, in the era of a new resettlement of peoples, in the time of the bankruptcy of multiculturalism and tolerance.
This book is the most complete biography of the Russian historian, based on an extensive collection of documents and materials, including those not published previously.