Heroic motives and images in N. S. Gumilyov's «Antique» lyrical works

The purpose of the article is consideration of the question connected to understanding N.S.Gumilyov's «antique» oeuvre through a prism of functioning and evolution of a various sort of heroic motives (motive of death and a choice of own death, motive of a feat and overcoming of death) and images in it.