INDEX FILE, for condensed Gumilev books
When I started with translation, it all seemed so daunting, (hard work, for what)? So I started slowly with condensed version of books, not to get all tied up in a mega-project. Here they are:
Where to start? We are “efficient beings” and we have allocated our time to what we know serves us. I am not going to take on a pile of books, just because you say so.
So start slowly. Short isn’t really short. It is still a chapter or two. (I admit, this is a special site (the library), maybe only for “bookworms”?) But I love it that you’re reading this.
You can see the full version of this. Look and you’ll find it, fantastic.
"The end and the beginning again", condensed
The end and the beginning again / L. N. Gumilev - (Exclusive: The Russian classics) 12,800 word free fragment translated from the Russian by me. This is a fantastic essay on the philosophy of man’s coalescence into groups, of which it’s the condition every human being.
there is also the full version of this. Look and you’ll find it, fantastic.
From Rus to Russia, condensed
This is another condensed version which can be likened to the Yevtushenko book below. This is because the first half explains theory of ethnogenesis and the second part talks about Russian origins, including wide ranging causality as a background. It is just a taste of Ancient Rus, because it is so much shortened. But reading these 27 pages could be …
In Search of a Fictional Kingdom (excerpt)
But while uploading Ancient RUS and the Great Steppe, I noticed this book was referred to in the footnotes many times. So evidentially, there is developed a great background on central Asia in these pages. It is again about the Great Steppe, but this excerpt is only one post. (9,500 words). (I have another book about Central Asia to translate: LEV GUMIL…
Ancient Turks / (Part 1)
This is a condensed version of a much longer book, but it well arrives at a conclusion in 54 pages, and about 21,000 words, in two parts. It is another dizzying account of war after war in the central Asian Steppe.
I wish I could find a good copy of the full Hunnu text. I found it once, but the translation came out garbled.
The History of the Hunnu Nation (part 1 of 3)
Son of famous poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilev, Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912-1992) devoted his life to science. He was attracted by the mysterious East, the mysteries of ancient civilizations, ancient peoples and tribes. Engaged in archeological studies of Khazaria, the history of the Hunnu and ancient Turks, he wrote several scientific papers.…
Dinlin problem / L.N. Gumilev - "MTF", 1959
Revision of Grigory Efimovich Grumm-Grzhimailo's hypothesis of the existence of Caucasoid local population in Central Asia in the period before the 10th century AD in the light of new historical and archaeological materials.
This is Gumilev’s father, and his writing.
Notes of the cavalryman. Memoirs of the First World War
The most outstanding representative of the Silver Age poetry, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev went to the front as a volunteer in 1914, despite the fact that in 1907 he was exempted from military service. The book "Notes of a Cavalryman" - a documentary story about the first years he spent in the ranks of the 1st Squadron of the Life Guards Lancer Regiment.…