Russian Poets Before and After Revolution

Nikolai Gumiliov

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While WWI continued and Russian troops, having participated in the war, were billeted in different countries, profoundly significant political changes occurred in their native country: Tsar Nikolai II’s abdication, the Provisional Government with Kerensky as a prime minister of Russia, and The Revolution of 25 October 1917.

16,000 of the Russian Army were staying in France. Gumiliov, as an aide-de-camp, was posted at the so-called Russian Dispatch headquarters in Paris. Communication with the Russian government was passing through telegrams, but they reached the Army‘s headquarters regularly a week later.