Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev (October 1, 1912, St. Petersburg June 15, 1992, St. Petersburg), was a Soviet historian, ethnologist and anthropologist. His unorthodox ideas on the birth and death of ethnoi have given rise to the political and cultural movement known as "Neo-Eurasianism". His parents were two prominent poets Nikolay Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova. They were divorced when Lev was 7 years old, and his father was executed because of his anti-Bolshevik sympathies when Lev was just 9. During his mother's persecution in the 1930s, he was expelled from Leningrad University and deported to GULAGs, where he would spend most of his youth, from 1938 until 1956. During a brief stint at large, he joined the Red Army and took part in the Battle of Berlin. In order to secure his release, Akhmatova was forced to publish dithyrambs to Stalin, but this did not help.Their relations remained strained, as Lev blamed his mother for the misfortunes that had dogged his youth.