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According to the principles of acmeism ( as the movement came to be dubbed by art historians ), every person, irrespective of his talent, may learn to produce high-quality poems if only he follows the guild's masters, i. e., Gumilev and Gorodetsky.

Their own model was Théophile Gautier, and they borrowed much of their basic tenets from the French Parnasse.

Such a program, combined with colourful and exotic subject matter of Gumilev's poems, attracted to the Guild a large number of adolescents.

Several major poets, notably Georgy Ivanov and Vladimir Nabokov, passed the school of Gumilev, albeit informally.