Konstantin Vaginov and the Death of Nikolai Gumilev

Anthony Anemone

doi:10.2307/2499787

Konstantin Vaginov and the Death of Nikolai Gumilev

Slavic Review ◽

10.2307/2499787 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 631-636

Author(s):

Anthony Anemone

Keyword(s):

Real Danger ◽

Nikolai Gumilev ◽

Anna Akhmatova

In his “Poetic Responses to the Death of Gumilev,” Ivan Martynov has chronicled the repercussions of Gumilev's execution by the Cheka in August 1921 in the poetry of his contemporaries. Martynov recalls those poets who remained faithful to Gumilev and marked his death with memorable poems as well as the opportunists who publicly and loudly praised his executioners. Among those who betrayed Gumilev for selfish reasons, Martynov cites such former close friends as Elizaveta Polonskaia, Mikhail Zenkevich, Larisa Reisner, and Sergei Gorodetskii. Their cynicism and cowardice were, however, more than offset by the loyalty and resourcefulness of, among others, Anna Akhmatova, Georgii Adamovich, Nikolai Otsup, Ida Nappel'baum and Irina Odoevtseva. Despite the very real danger, these poets refused to renounce Gumilev in public. Because the Soviet censor would allow no overt references to Gumilev, much less poems in commemoration of his death, his friends were able to refer to him only obliquely in the months following his execution.

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Eurasianism Today and What Lev Gumilev Was Right About

Scientific knowledge - autonomy, dependence, resistance - Balkanistic Forum ◽

10.37708/bf.swu.v30i3.17 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 303-313

Author(s):

Stavris Parastatov

Keyword(s):

Russian Federation ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Ethnic Origin ◽

New Wave ◽

Original Idea ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Scientific Nature ◽

Nikolai Gumilev ◽

Anna Akhmatova

Lev Gumilev, the son of the famous Russian poets Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, according to all the canons of history, had to remain in the shadow of his great parents. However, Lev Gumilev went down in history as a very outstanding personality, the author of the original idea of the birth and development of ethnicities, which was called the “passion” theory of ethnogenesis. This theory causes great controversy about its scientific nature to this day. Lev Gumilev developed his theory within the framework of the concept of Eurasianism. Among the wide variety of Eurasian peoples, Gumilev saw a common ethnic origin, common stereotypes of behavior that could lead to the geopolitical unity of the territory inhabited by them. At the end of the last century, primordialism in ethnology was rejected by the majority of the scientific community, and Gumilev’s ideas were criticized. However, last years the Eurasianist ideas of Lev Gumilev are experiencing a new wave of importance in connection with the strategic path of development that the Russian Federation has chosen for itself, which is progressively building the United Eurasian Community.

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The AI Delusion

10.1093/oso/9780198824305.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Gary Smith

Keyword(s):

Data Mining ◽

Knowledge Discovery ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

The Real ◽

Intelligent Machines ◽

Black Boxes ◽

Real Danger ◽

The Way

We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before. But our love of computers should not cloud our thinking about their limitations. We are told that computers are smarter than humans and that data mining can identify previously unknown truths, or make discoveries that will revolutionize our lives. Our lives may well be changed, but not necessarily for the better. Computers are very good at discovering patterns, but are useless in judging whether the unearthed patterns are sensible because computers do not think the way humans think. We fear that super-intelligent machines will decide to protect themselves by enslaving or eliminating humans. But the real danger is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us and, so, trust computers to make important decisions for us. The AI Delusion explains why we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, and that black boxes should be trusted.

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