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Events on Friday 26 August 1921 1
1886 – 1921Nikolai Gumilyov (1886-1921)Died 26 August 1921, aged 35Nikolai Gumilyov, a founder of the Acmeist school of Russian poetry and former husband of poet Anna Akhmatova, was executed by the Cheka after being accused of involvement in an anti-Bolshevik conspiracy. He was one of the first major Russian writers killed by the Soviet state. His execution shocked the Russian literary world.