L.N. Gumilev was a Russian ethnographer, historian, and philosopher, the son of the famous poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilev.
Lev Gumilev also possessed literary talent. The play "Magic Cigarettes" is a strange, symbol-laden, somewhat eerie fairy tale in which the struggle between Good and Evil is presented in allegorical form.
Gumilev composed this play in captivity, in the Norilsk camp, in 1942. Having no opportunity to write the verses down on paper, the writer preserved the work in his memory for many years.