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The article is devoted to the late poetry by N. Gumilyov, which contradicts the image of the poet, which was being created in the battles of literary critics at the end of the 19^th – beginning of the 20^th centuries. The poet’s name at those years was a symbol of acmeism as a pretty tough and pretty narrow poetical doctrine which had at that times one more defi nition — “Gumilyov’s style.” The analysis of the late works by N. Gumilyov demonstrates the inner freedom of creative activity by the poet who overcomes partitions in literature and appears to be at the cross-road of the searches of Russian and European literatures; detects the poet’s movement towards symbolism, his appeal to the experience of Russian and European avant-garde.