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Lev Gumilyov was born on 19 October, 0012 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, is a Soviet historian, ethnologist, and anthropologist (1912–1992). Discover Lev Gumilyov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Born 19 October, 1912
Birthday 19 October
Birthplace Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Date of death 15 June, 1992
Died Place Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality Russia

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1912

Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв; 1 October 1912 – 15 June 1992) was a Soviet and Russian historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator.

He had a reputation for his highly unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy.

He was an exponent of Eurasianism.

According to geographer Mark Bassin, Lev Gumilev, whose books have now sold millions of copies, can be compared in terms of influence to Herodotus, Karl Marx, Oswald Spengler or Albert Einstein.

Gumilev's parents, the prominent poets Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, divorced when he was 7 years old and his father was executed by the Cheka when he was just 9.

1935

He was arrested by the NKVD in 1935 and released, but rearrested and sentenced to five years in 1938.

Osip Mandelstam's "Stalin Epigram" is said to have played a role in his arrest.

1938

Gumilev spent much of his adulthood, from 1938 until 1956, in Soviet labor camps.

1945

After release, he joined the Red Army and took part in the Battle of Berlin of 1945.

1949

However, he was arrested again in 1949 and sentenced to ten years in prison camps.

Aiming to secure his freedom, Akhmatova published a dithyramb to Joseph Stalin, which did not help to release Gumilev, although it possibly prevented her own imprisonment.

The Soviet secret police had already prepared an order for her arrest, but Stalin decided not to sign it.

Relations between Gumilev and his mother became strained, as he blamed her for not helping him enough.

1950

In the 1950s and 1960s, he participated in several expeditions to the Volga Delta and to the North Caucasus.

He proposed an archeological site for Samandar as well as the theory of the Caspian transgression in collaboration with geologist Alexander Aleksin as one of the reasons for Khazar decline.

1953

After Stalin's death in 1953, Gumilev joined the Hermitage Museum, whose director, Mikhail Artamonov, he would accept as his mentor.

Under Artamonov's guidance, he became interested in Khazar studies and in steppe peoples in general.

1960

In 1960, he started delivering lectures at Leningrad University.

Two years later, he defended his doctoral thesis on ancient Turks.

From the 1960s, he worked in the Geography Institute, where he would defend another doctoral thesis, this time in geography.

1963

She described her feelings about her son's arrest and the period of political repressions in Requiem (published in 1963).

1985

Although the official Soviet authorities rejected his ideas and banned most of his monographs from being published, Gumilev came to attract much publicity, especially in the Perestroika years of 1985–1991.

1996

As an indication of his popularity, the Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered the L. N. Gumilev Eurasian National University (Евразийский Национальный университет имени Л. Н. Гумилёва, founded in 1996) to be erected just opposite his own palace on the central square of the new Kazakh capital, Astana.

Senior researcher in the Department of Ethnology at the University of Tartu, Aimar Ventsel states the following: "Gumilev’s central concept is that of the ethnos. He connected it to the biosphere concept promoted by Academician Vernadsky and came to the conclusion that the ethnos is like a human being: it has its own character, childhood, adulthood and waning period. As people are part of nature, peoples must also follow the laws of nature. Of these, the most important is passionarity, or the vital energy of the ethnos. Passionarity is connected to geography—in other words, ethnic groups that developed in certain climatic and geographical conditions “adapt” to their environment, find their “ecological niche” and become part of the energy of their living environment. Each ethnos has its own “behavioural stereotype”, which is passed down from parent to child, and could be considered a national mentality.

These stereotypes are like animal reflexes that ensure the preservation of an ethnos.

In time, an ethnos develops its own civilisation, which includes religion, manners and norms.

Gumilev was never able to explain whether or not a civilisation is a biological phenomenon, but he claimed that people of different races could be part of the same civilisation".

Drawing inspiration from the works of Konstantin Leontyev and Nikolay Danilevsky, Gumilev regarded Russians as a "super-ethnos" kindred to Turkic-Mongol peoples of the Eurasian steppe.

The periods in which Russia has been said to conflict with the steppe peoples were reinterpreted by Gumilev as the periods of consolidation of Russian power with that of steppe to oppose destructive influences from Catholic Europe, that posed a potential threat to integrity of Russian.

He also saw a distinct Eurasian civilization with there being a unification of the Eurasian peoples around Russia.

In accordance with his pan-Asiatic theories, he supported the national movements of Tatars, Kazakhs and other Turkic peoples, in addition to those of the Mongols and other East Asians.

Unsurprisingly, Gumilev's teachings have enjoyed immense popularity in Central Asian countries.

2005

In Kazan, for example, a monument to him was erected in August 2005.

The historian Mark Bassin stated that Gumilev's theories are scientifically unproven and problematic but that they have a significant impact in a range of Soviet and post-Soviet contexts.

Several researchers, such as Vadim Rossman, John Klier, Victor Yasmann, Victor Schnirelmann and Mikhail Tripolsky describe Gumilev's views as anti-Semitic.

According to those authors, Gumilev did not extend this ethnological ecumenism to the medieval Jews, whom he regarded as a parasitic, international urban class that had dominated the Khazars and subjected the early East Slavs to the "Khazar Yoke".

The last phrase was adapted by him from the traditional term "Tatar Yoke" for the Mongol domination of medieval Russia, a term that Gumilev rejected since he did not regard the Mongol conquest as a necessarily-negative event.

Instead, he believed the Tatar yoke to be a military union of the Russians and Tatars.

In particular, he asserted that the Radhanites had been instrumental in the exploitation of East Slavic people and had exerted undue influence on the sociopolitical and economic landscape of the early Middle Ages.

Gumilev maintained that the Jewish culture was by nature mercantile and existed outside and in opposition to its environment.