| The founder and leader of Acmeism, a modernist poetic school of the second decade of the last century, Gumilev drew on many Western models, particularly French ones. |
| Anna Akhmatova wrote during the Silver Age or Russian Literature, subscribing to the school of Acmeism, founded by her first husband, Nikolai Gumilev. |
| In 1911 she joined the Guild of Poets, the founders of Russian Acmeism, along with Gumilev and Mandelstam. |
| Perhaps even less unified than Acmeism, Futurism sought to provoke and outrage. |
