There are sorted out the key mythologems, which are included into Gumilevs biography myth. There is traced the flexibility of the hierarchical structure of multi-component Gumilevs mythological image. There is stated the conditionality of dominating of some mythologem by an event-trigger context. Legend formation about the shooting of N.S.Gumilev is regarded as extrapolation of the biography myth in the vein given by myth canon pressure.

There are sorted out the main stages of Gumilevs myth functioning in the Russian literature. There are traced the peculiarities of each stage and regarded the most typical texts for them. There are determined the regularities of Gumilevs myth transformation.