Nikolai Gumilev was born in 1886.0:06
When a child, he was a great reader and began writing poems very early.0:10
Most of all, the boy liked to read about faraway countries and travelling.0:15
At the age of 12 he made his first journey when his family moved to Tiflis, now Tbilisi.0:20
Nikolai loved living in the south, where the sun was so bright and the sky was so blue.0:27
In Tiflis he published his first poem in a real grown up newspaper.0:33
Family returned to St. Petersburg, where Nikolai went to a grammar school.0:38
The boy was not among the best pupils, but the head of the school, Innokenty Anensky, a poet himself, understood very early how talented the boy was.0:43
After finishing school, Nikolai left home for Paris where he became a student at Sorbonne University.0:54
He still dreamed about traveling.1:01
Most of all, he wanted to see Africa.1:03
His father didn't like the idea and the young man secretly saved some of the money his parents sent him.1:06
In 1907 his dream came true.1:12
He went to Africa, first to Egypt and then to Sudan.1:16
Before going away, he had written a lot of letters to his parents and asked his friends to send them to St. Petersburg to his parents, as he didn't want them to know about his trip.1:21
Africa caught his imagination and he fell in love with it as soon as he saw it.1:32
He traveled around the continent more than once and helped to study the life and culture of its peoples.1:37
More importantly, the new impressions made him write some of his best poems.1:44
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