Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov (3 [15] April 1886, Kronstadt — 26 August 1921, near Petrograd) was a Russian poet of the Silver Age, founder of the school of Acmeism, a prose writer, translator, and literary critic. The first husband of Anna Akhmatova, father of Lev Gumilyov. He completed several expeditions to Eastern and Northeast Africa.