Blok Alexander Alexandrovich (1880─1921) - Russian poet and writer, playwright and publicist, literary critic and translator. His work belongs to the classics of Russian literature of the twentieth century.

Parents

The poet's father, Alexander Lvovich, had German roots in his family; he was a lawyer by training and worked as an assistant professor at the department of public law at the University of Warsaw.

The boy’s mother, translator Alexandra Andreevna, had purely Russian roots, she was the daughter of the famous academician, rector of St. Petersburg State University Beketov A. N. In the family her name was Asya and they loved her incredibly, firstly, because she was the youngest, and secondly, for kindness, affection and a very cheerful character. Most of all, Asya loved literature, especially poetry; perhaps this love was later passed on to the future poet at the genetic level.

Blok's parents met at a dance party. Asya made a strong impression on Alexander Lvovich, he fell in love and began to look for a meeting with the girl in every possible way, frequenting the Beketovs’ house, where receptions were held on Saturdays. The relationship between Asya and Alexander Lvovich developed quite quickly; at the beginning of 1879 they got married in the university church. The groom was 9 years older than the bride; on the wedding day they immediately left for Warsaw.

Alexander Lvovich loved his wife madly, but in life he turned out to be a despot and a tyrant, his love alternated with torment and bullying. Their first child was stillborn. The woman was desperately grieving and dreamed of giving birth to a second baby as soon as possible.

When Asya was pregnant for the second time, she and her husband came to St. Petersburg to defend his dissertation. We immediately settled in her parents’ house. Having received another academic degree, Alexander Lvovich Blok returned to Warsaw alone. His wife's parents persuaded him to leave his wife with them, because in the eighth month of pregnancy it is unsafe to be afraid on trains.

Alexander Blok was born in the house of his grandfather Beketov. The boy was large and well-built; from the first day of his life he became the center of attention in the family. The father in Warsaw was immediately informed about the birth of his son. When he arrived in St. Petersburg for the Christmas holidays and stayed with the Beketovs, his whole despotic character was revealed to them. Everyone understood that Asya was hiding from her parents how she really lived with her husband.

Alexander Lvovich left alone again; it was decided that his wife, weakened by childbirth, and their tiny son would remain in their parents’ house until spring. But she never returned to her husband in Warsaw; her father insisted that her daughter and grandson remain in St. Petersburg.

The baby was restless and capricious; sometimes he could not be rocked to sleep for several hours. He fell asleep only in the arms of his grandfather, who walked with his grandson in his arms and at the same time prepared for lectures at the university.

Sashenka began to walk and talk late, but every summer spent in the village of Shakhmatovo improved his health. By the age of three, the boy was so handsome that passers-by could not pass by without looking back at the child.

The future poet inherited exactly half the traits of both his father and mother in his character. Through the Blok line, Alexander inherited intelligence, depth of feelings and strong temperament. But along with these harsh traits, there were also Beketian sides in him; Alexander Blok was very generous, kind and childishly trusting.

Childhood

The boy grew up playful and interesting, but very willful; it was almost impossible to dissuade him or teach him to do anything; his mother often had to punish Sasha.

Until he was three years old, they couldn’t find a suitable nanny for him. But then nanny Sonya appeared, who developed a special relationship with the child. Little Blok adored her; most of all, he liked it when the nanny read Pushkin’s fairy tales aloud to him.

He loved to play, and he absolutely did not need any companions; he was so keen on the game himself that he could run around the rooms all day long, pretending to be people, horses, or conductors. In addition to games and nanny's fairy tales, he had another strong passion - ships, he painted them in different forms and hung them throughout the house, this passion remained with him throughout his life.

In the fourth year of his life, the boy first traveled abroad with his mother and nanny, to Trieste and Florence, where he swam a lot in the sea and sunbathed.

From there we returned to his beloved village of Shakhmatovo. While still a child, Blok studied all the surroundings here; later he would depict this place in his poem “Retribution.” He knew where mushrooms were found, lilies of the valley and forget-me-nots bloomed, where he could pick a whole basket of wild strawberries.

Little Sasha was madly in love with animals; yard dogs, hedgehogs, even insects and earthworms aroused his admiration. At the age of five, he dedicated his first poems to a gray bunny and a domestic cat.

His own father, Alexander Lvovich, came to Russia for the holidays and visited his son, but did not evoke much sympathy from the boy. The elder Blok was more concerned about getting his wife back, but she persistently asked for a divorce. Until he himself decided to remarry in Warsaw, he refused to grant a divorce.

And already in 1889, when Alexander Blok was nine years old, my mother married for the second time the lieutenant of the grenadier regiment Kublitsky-Piottukh. She took her husband’s surname, and her son remained Blok.

They moved to the Bolshaya Nevka embankment, there was a new apartment in the regimental barracks, where they lived for 15 years. The stepfather did not have any special love for his stepson, but he did not offend him either. The boy made friends with the neighboring children, and together they skated when the Nevka was covered with thick ice. At home he occupied himself with drawing and sawing, and he especially enjoyed binding books.

Gymnasium and university

In 1889, Sasha entered the Vvedensky gymnasium to study. Studying could not be called smooth, arithmetic was the worst, and he was very fond of ancient languages.
As a high school student, he was unsociable, did not like unnecessary conversations, and often wrote poetry in solitude.

Already at the age of ten he wrote two issues of the magazine “Ship”. And in his final years at the gymnasium, he and his cousins ​​began publishing a handwritten magazine, Vestnik. Grandfather occasionally helped his grandchildren illustrate the magazine. This publication contained poetry and prose of the young Blok, puzzles and riddles, translations from French, and even a small play “A Trip to Italy.” In one of the issues a fairy tale was published, where the characters were beetles and ants. Blok mainly wrote humorous poems, but he also had a very touching poem dedicated to his mother.

Blok was not too keen on reading during his high school years, but he had favorite poets and writers:

• Zhukovsky and Pushkin;
• Jules Verne and Dickens;
• Cooper and Mine Reid.

In his senior year, Blok became interested in theater, recited Shakespeare, joined a theater club, and even had several roles in plays.

In 1897, Alexander, his mother and aunt, went to Germany, where his mother was undergoing treatment. This is where his first love happened. Ksenia Mikhailova Sadovskaya was a secular, beautiful and pampered lady of 37 years old, the mother of a family. The young man was immediately struck by her bottomless blue eyes; passion captured him and gave him poetic inspiration.

The beauty was the first to attract the inexperienced guy. Every morning he bought and gave her roses, they rode alone in a boat, and, of course, Blok dedicated to her his most touching poems that a young poet in love could write. He signed them “mysterious K. M. S.”

Returning to Russia, in 1898 Alexander graduated from high school. He immediately became a law student at St. Petersburg University. After three years of study, he transferred to the Faculty of History and Philology, choosing the Slavic-Russian department. In 1906, the poet graduated from the university.

Family life

In 1903, Alexander married Mendeleev’s daughter Lyubov.

They met a long time ago, during the summer holidays in the village where the Mendeleev estate was located next to Beketovskaya. He was 14 years old then, and Lyuba was 13, they walked and played together. Their second meeting took place when Blok had just graduated from high school; this time the young people made a completely different impression on each other.

While studying at the university, Blok often visited the Mendeleevs’ home, at which time his poems appeared, which were later included in the collection “Poems about a Beautiful Lady,” he dedicated them to his future wife Lyubov.

In the year of his marriage, another significant event took place in the poet’s life; his poems began to be published in the magazine “New Path” and in the almanac “Northern Flowers”. Blok’s creativity was quickly appreciated both in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

After the wedding, the young Blocks lived in his stepfather’s house, went to Moscow for a while, and in the summer they went to Shakhmatovo. Here they began to equip their family nest with their own hands. Alexander greatly respected physical labor, he even wrote in his poems about how he loved any work - “building a stove, writing poetry.” The blocks developed a luxurious garden, built a turf sofa in it, and often hosted guests. They were such a beautiful sunny couple among the wildflowers that they were even called the Princess and the Tsarevich.

They were each other's strongest loves of their lives. But their marriage turned out to be quite strange. Blok considered his wife the embodiment of Eternal femininity and did not admit that he could make carnal love with her. He had other women, Lyuba also had an affair with actor Konstantin Lavidovsky, from whom she became pregnant. Blok, who had been ill in his youth, could not have children, so he received the news of his wife’s pregnancy with joy that God would give them, free birds, a child. But this happiness was not destined to come true; the born boy died after living only eight days. Blok suffered this loss very hard and often visited the boy’s grave.

At the end of his life, the poet will say that there were two loves in his life - Lyuba and everyone else.

Creation

In 1904, the Grif publishing house published Blok’s first book, “Poems about a Beautiful Lady.”

The years 1906-1908 were marked by particular success and growth as a writer for Blok. He experienced all the events of the 1905 revolution through himself; he himself took part in demonstrations, which was reflected in a number of his works. His books come out one after another:

• "Unexpected joy";
• "Snow Mask";
• "Earth in the Snow";
• "Lyrical Dramas".

In 1909, the poet traveled through Germany and Italy, the result of this trip was the collection “Italian Poems”.

In 1912, he wrote the drama “Rose and Cross”, which was appreciated by V. Nemirovich-Danchenko and K. Stanislavsky, but this play was never staged.

In 1916, Blok served in the active army; he was assigned to Belarus in the engineering units of the All-Russian Zemstvo Union. During his service, he learned about the completed revolution, which he initially perceived with mixed feelings, but did not emigrate from the country.

This period includes such famous collections of poems as “Night Hours”, “Poems about Russia”, “Beyond Past Days”, “Gray Morning”.

Since 1918, Alexander was recruited to serve in the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry, which investigated the illegal actions of officials. Here he worked as an editor.

Revolutionary events led to a deep creative crisis and depression for the poet. After the works “The Twelve” and “Scythians” he stopped writing poetry; in his words, “all sounds stopped.”

Illness and death

From 1918 to 1920, Blok worked a lot in various positions in committees and commissions. He was terribly tired, as the poet himself said, “I was drunk,” and his health began to decline sharply. Several diseases became worse at once: cardiovascular failure, asthma, scurvy, neurosis. On top of everything, the family had a difficult financial situation.

In the middle of the summer of 1921, the poet began to have problems with his mind: he either fell into unconsciousness or returned to life again. All this time, his wife Lyuba looked after him. Doctors suspected he had cerebral edema.

On August 7, 1921, the poet Alexander Blok died in the presence of his wife and mother. He was buried at the Smolensk cemetery, and in 1944 his ashes were reburied at the Volkovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.

The Alexander Blok Museum-Reserve has been opened in Shakhmatovo, where a monument to the poet and his Beautiful Lady has been erected.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was born on November 28, 1880 in St. Petersburg. His father was a lawyer, in addition to this he was a teacher at the University of Warsaw. Mother - Alexandra Beketova, was the daughter of the rector of one of the St. Petersburg universities. Soon after Alexander's birth, the parents broke off their relationship and the son began to live with his mother. Soon the mother remarried officer F.F. Kublitsky-Piottukha, the family began to live in the guards barracks.

In 1889 he began studying at the Vvedenskaya Gymnasium. When he went abroad in 1897 to one of the German resort towns, he experienced his first love for Ksenia Sadovskaya. A year later, after graduating from high school, he fell in love with Lyubov Mendeleeva, who later became his wife. Blok entered the Faculty of Law, but later changed his mind and began studying at the Faculty of History and Philology, from which he graduated in 1906.

The poet's literary path began in childhood. At the age of 10, young Blok began publishing his own handwritten magazines. From the age of 16 he attended a theater group, but he was practically not given roles. In 1901 he published his first collection of poems, “Poems about a Beautiful Lady,” which was written in the genre of symbolism. Over the years, his work evolved, and he began to raise such topics as human social life (“City” 1904-1908), religiosity (“Snow Mask” 1907), philosophy of life (“Scary World” 1908-1916), patriotism (“Motherland” ” 1907-1916)

After receiving higher education, Alexander Blok traveled abroad a lot, sometimes living there for months. It is characteristic that he spoke negatively about France and other European countries. The poet did not like the culture and customs of these countries.

The February and October revolutions had a significant impact on Blok's work and life. He had ambiguous thoughts about these events, but unlike other artists, he not only did not oppose the new government, but also supported it in every possible way, although later it seemed to him a mistake. The difficult financial situation and constant exhaustion negatively affected Blok’s health and he began to get sick. The new government, represented by the Politburo, refused to give permission to travel to Finland in order to begin treatment there. On August 7, 1921, Alexander Blok died from prolonged inflammation of the heart. Many famous personalities in Petrograd attended his funeral. In 1941, his ashes were again buried on the Literatorskie Mostki at the Volkovskoye cemetery.

Biography and creativity

In 1880, on November 28 (16), a son was born into the cultured St. Petersburg family of nobles Alexander Blok and Alexandra Beketova. The boy was named Sasha. Family happiness did not last long; the parents soon separated. Sasha's mother remarried and Blok grew up with his stepfather.

The family of the future poet spent the winter in his native St. Petersburg, and went to Shakhmatovo for the summer. The estate of Andrei Nikolaevich Beketov, Blok’s maternal grandfather, became for Sasha a window into the wonderful world of Russian nature.

The boy rode horseback, spent hours in the garden and happily tinkered with various domestic animals. Thus, from early childhood, Sasha learned to feel and love his native land.

The first experience of versification took place at the age of five. And at the age of nine, Blok entered the gymnasium. From an early age, Sasha, who was partial to reading, became interested in publishing. Ten-year-old Blok published a couple of issues of the handwritten magazine “Ship”, and at the age of 14, together with his brothers, he published “Vestnik”.

In 1898, after finishing his studies at the gymnasium, Alexander decides to devote his life to the study of law. But, after studying law for three years at St. Petersburg University, he became interested in ancient philosophy and moved to the Faculty of History and Philology.

Blok met the beginning of the twentieth century in the creative circle of the brightest writers of our time. Fet, Solovyov, Merezhkovsky, Gippius, Bryusov accepted the twenty-year-old talented young man into the arms of cultural St. Petersburg.

Blok became passionately interested in Russian symbolism. The first poems were published by the publishing house “New Way”; later the poet’s works were published in the almanac “Northern Flowers”.

The Beketovs' neighbors were the Mendeleevs. The daughter of the great chemist, Lyubov Dmitrievna, became for the poet not only his beloved girl, but also his muse. In 1903, Mendeleeva became his wife.

Blok is at the very beginning of his amazing creativity. In the same year, his poetic cycle “Poems about a Beautiful Lady”, dedicated to his wife, was published. The poet, filled with love, imagines a woman as a wonderful spring of light and purity, admiring the great power of true love, capable of uniting the whole world in one person.

The events of 1905-1907 and the First World War pressed the poet’s lyrical mood. Blok thought about the problems of society; he was concerned about the embodiment of the theme of the creator against the backdrop of existing reality. In the poet’s work, the homeland is like a loving wife, which is why patriotism acquired individuality and depth.

The year 1909 became tragic for the Blok family. The father and newborn child of Alexander Alexandrovich and Lyubov Dmitrievna died. At the same time, the poet conceived the poem “Retribution,” the work on which was never completed.

What was happening in Russia gloomily echoed the poet’s personal experiences, but Blok sincerely believed in the bright future of his native country.

1916 became the year of military service for the poet. He did not take part in hostilities; he served as a timekeeper.

Blok met the 1917 revolution with hope for changes for the better. The inspiration lasted for at most a year, presenting the public in 1918 with the controversial poem “The Twelve,” the article “Intellectuals and Revolution” and the poem “Scythians.”

With these works, the poet showed that he accepted Bolshevik Russia and was ready to live and work in a renewed country.

This allowed the new government to fully exploit the name of the famous poet. The poet no longer belonged to himself.

Heart pain, asthma, and nervous disorders became constant companions of the poet, who was loaded with everyday hardships, financial problems and constant work.

Blok tried to obtain permission to travel to Finland to rest and improve his health, especially since in 1920 he fell ill with scurvy.

Gorky, Lunacharsky and Kamenev asked for the poet. But the application was approved too late. On August 7, 1921, Alexander Blok passed away.

Very briefly by date

On November 16, 1880, the writer was born in the city of St. Petersburg. Born into a cultured family of a professor and writer.

In 1889 he was sent to a gymnasium and graduated in 1898.

Blok also graduated from the Institute of Law and History and Philology.

Blok began writing his first poems at the age of five. As a teenager, he was involved in acting.

At the age of 23 he married the daughter of the scientist Mendeleev, L.D. Mendeleeva. There was a quarrel with Andrei Bely over Mrs. Mendeleeva.

In 1904, a collection of poems by Alexander Blok was published and it was called “poems about a beautiful lady.”

A few years later, Blok and his wife managed to relax in Spain and Germany.

During the period of his creative activity, he was accepted by the “academy” society. Where were the wealthy, future famous creative figures?

Blok’s most famous work is “Night, Street, Lantern, Pharmacy.”

The dawn of the writer came in 1912-1914. The block mostly did not travel. During this time he worked in a publishing house.

The block was very sick. He was not allowed to go abroad for treatment. So in the end, in poverty and hunger, the writer died in 1921 from heart disease.

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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was born in 1880, on November 16 in the capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg. The family of the future poet was from the old Russian intelligentsia - his father was a professor, his mother a translator. The parents' marriage broke up even before the birth of their son, and Alexander was raised by his grandfather A. Beketov (he was the rector of the university). Therefore, most of Blok’s childhood memories are connected precisely with their family estate in Shakhmatovo, where the boy spent his annual summer holidays. Alexander's passion for literature manifested itself in early childhood, when at the age of five he began to compose his first poems.
Blok's mother, after a divorce, remarried in 1889. (her chosen one was a guards officer). In the same year, Alexander was assigned to study at the gymnasium. After its graduation in 1898. the young man entered the university with the firm conviction of becoming a lawyer. But after studying for three years, he realized that jurisprudence was definitely not for him. Therefore, the young man chose a different path and transferred to the Faculty of History and Philology, which he graduated successfully in 1906.

While still a student, in 1900. the future poet met the then famous symbolists D. Merezhkovsky, Z. Gippius, A. Bely, V. Bryusov. At the same time, the young man’s poetic talent blossoms. In 1903 A significant event took place in Blok’s life - his marriage to Lyubov Mendeleeva, the daughter of the famous Russian chemist D. Mendeleev. And already in 1904. The book "Poems about a Beautiful Lady" was published.
Occurred in 1905. the revolution played a significant role in the formation of the poet’s new worldview. The nature of the poet’s creativity also changes. The romantic beautiful lady is replaced by a rebellious stranger. At this time, Blok’s writings were permeated with motifs of rebellion; images of unbridled elements, blizzards, occupied a central place in his poems. In 1907 Blok publishes his collections of poems “Snow Mask”, “Unexpected Joy”, “Earth in the Snow”. In 1908 the poet turns to the theater and writes dramas “Stranger”, “Balaganchik”, etc. He gains fame and becomes a successful writer.
In the spring of 1909 A. Blok and his wife go on vacation abroad. They visited Italy and visited Germany. The time of this interesting journey for the poet becomes a kind of stage of reassessment of values. As a result of the trip, the collection “Italian Poems” was published. At the end of 1909 Alexander receives an inheritance from his father, which allowed the poet to temporarily not think about literary earnings and concentrate on working on major works. 1911 was marked by the publication of the collection “Night Hours”. And in 1912-13. The play "Rose and Cross" was written.
In July 1916 the poet was drafted into the army. In 1917, after the February Revolution, he returned to Petrograd and worked as part of an investigative commission that investigated the crimes of tsarism. The results of this work are reflected in the documentary collection “The Last Days of Imperial Power.” And already the next October revolution of 1917. caused a new rise in Blok's creativity. He wrote the famous poems “Scythians” and “The Twelve”.
But at the same time, the writer also sees a discrepancy between his ideas about a new life and the approaching totalitarian regime, where there is no place for the freedom of the artist. All this puts the poet into a state of depression, and he is diagnosed with heart disease. Blok's request to travel abroad for treatment was rejected by the new government. And in 1921, on August 7, the poet died.

Blok began composing his poems at a young age: from poem to poem his talent only became stronger. The first poems were inspired by Vasnetsov’s paintings depicting the prophetic birds of ancient Russian legends: Sirin, Alkonost, Gamayun. And if you look more deeply, these poems were about life, about time, about the Motherland and Russia: they only talk about this in large and symbolic terms.

After the revolution, the theme of two Russias emerges in the poet’s work: autocratic and popular. For the poet, Russia is a huge, dear creature, similar to a person, but more comfortable and affectionate. All his works are imbued with love for the Motherland, for his country: therefore, the events of the revolution are too difficult for him. Hunger, poverty and defeat make Blok dislike poetry: and he begins to create only satirical poems with poisonous mockery.

In the plays (dramas) that were released at this time, one can feel bitter disappointment from the imperfection of the world and disappointed hopes.

Alexander Blok also wrote works of a historical nature: the most famous of them are the poems of the “Battle of Kulikovo” cycle. For the poet, the Battle of Kulikovo is a historical fact that gives reason to reflect on the present and future of Russia.

But his best poems are dedicated to the Beautiful Lady, to whom the knight (monk, youth, poet) strives. There is a lot behind this desire: the mystical comprehension of God, the search for the path of life, the desire for ideal, beauty and many other shades. Even descriptions of nature are not given on their own. Dawn, stars and the sun are synonyms of the Beautiful Lady, morning and spring are a time of hope for a meeting, winter and night are separation and evil. The theme of love permeates the poet’s entire work.

The famous poet of the Silver Age also had an interest in children's literature and wrote many poems, some of which were included in collections of poems for children.

Blok's creativity is multifaceted: he wrote about Italy and St. Petersburg, about poetry, about time and death, about music and friendship. He dedicated his poems to his mother, God, woman, Pushkin, Shakhmatov, Mendeleeva. Look at the lyrical works on this page - and choose those that will awaken your soul and give pleasure to the Word.

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Biography, life story of Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

The poet Blok was born in St. Petersburg in 1880 on November 16, he was the son of a law professor. Blok’s mother separated from her husband immediately after the birth of the boy. The child was raised in the family of his grandfather, who was the rector of St. Petersburg University, Beketov. Beketov Alexander Nikolaevich was a botanist by training. The mother married a second time, the family settled in the Grenadier barracks, since the stepfather was a guards officer. His last name was Kublitsky-Piottukh. Blok successfully graduated from high school and entered St. Petersburg University to study at the Faculty of Law. He soon realized that his interests were far from legal science and transferred to the Faculty of Philology, to the Slavic-Russian department. Alexander managed to study law for three years before becoming interested in philosophy and poetry.

The acquaintance with his future wife took place within the walls of the university; she was the daughter of the famous Mendeleev, a chemist. The young couple got married in 1903. Blok was in love with his wife. It was a feeling of rare strength, which is not given to everyone. Blok's first love also left a deep mark on his soul and poetry. The poet experienced his first love during his high school years at a resort in Baden-Baden, where the family vacationed in 1897. By 1901, the poet had already written many poems, these were lyrics about love, poems about nature. Blok's poetry was built on the idealistic ideas of Plato's philosophy; it was full of vague forebodings, hints and allegories. In poetry there was an unreal world of higher ideas; it was something sublime.

The relationship with his wife was contradictory and very difficult, since there was almost no physical intimacy between them. At this time, Blok became close to the Symbolists. There were two circles of symbolists - St. Petersburg and Moscow. In the first, Zinaida Gippius and Merezhkovsky reigned; in the second, in Moscow, Bryusov was the main figure. Alexander became close to the Moscow circle of admirers of the philosophy of Vl. Solovyov, Andrei Bely stood out among them. Bely was then an aspiring prose writer and poet, a theorist and connoisseur of new literature and new art. Andrei Bely's group greeted Blok's poems with delight. The Symbolist publishing house published the book “Poems about a Beautiful Lady.” Blok's wife became the object of Andrei Bely's crush, but he was rejected. However, family relationships became even more strained.

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The bloc began to gradually move away from the Symbolists back in 1905-1907, during the revolution. He turned to civil themes, at which time he wrote a drama for the Meyerhold Theater called "Balaganchik". During the period of war and revolution, Blok wrote many works in which he tried to comprehend the historical path of Russia from the point of view of the worldview of symbolism. Gradually, catastrophic motifs began to grow in his work, and he realized that the artistic language of the Symbolists was alien to him. Blok accepted the revolution as an element of purification, but no one understood or accepted his images. Blok became a professional writer around the years 1906-1908, when books began to be published one after another, but from that same time a discord with symbolism began to emerge. He finally took his own path in literature, drawing conclusions from his thoughts and doubts.

There was more than one woman in Blok’s life who influenced his poetry. Every period of biography became poetry. The history of the appearance of the “Carmen” cycle is connected with the feeling for Love Alexandrovna Delmas. Delmas was her stage name, after her mother's last name. Her real name was Tishinskaya. She was a famous singer who graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. She sang romances to Blok's words at the Tenishevsky School, when everyone noticed that Blok and Delmas were strikingly suited to each other. Their feeling was “terribly serious.” She was a dazzling woman, but was she beautiful? Blok had a peculiar idea of ​​female beauty; in fact, she was no longer a young, overweight woman. The cycles “Carmen”, “Harp and Violin”, “Grey Morning”, and the poem “The Nightingale Garden”, which Blok completed in 1915, were dedicated to her.

Having made interesting trips abroad, Blok published a cycle of the best poems in Russian poetry about Italy and many other wonderful works.

In the summer of 1916, Blok was drafted into the army, where he found information about the February Revolution of 1917. When the poet returned to Petrograd, he began to take part in the investigation of the crimes of the tsarist regime as part of the Extraordinary Commission. His book about these investigations was published posthumously. The last short creative upsurge occurred in 1918, when the poems “The Twelve” and “Scythians” were published. No one accepted or understood the image of Christ; the poem was perceived in very different ways. The revolutionaries were more lenient, but opponents of the revolution declared a real boycott of the poet.

In 1919, Blok was accused of an anti-Soviet conspiracy. He was interrogated for a long time, but Lunacharsky stood up. The poet was released, he began to try to cooperate with the authorities. Soon Blok felt the onset of a crisis of creativity; he realized that he would not have a place in the new literature. His physical condition had deteriorated greatly, he was on the verge of exhaustion, on the verge of life and death. He recently abandoned creativity and died of inflammation of the heart valves on August 7, 1921.