A block of interesting facts from life. Interesting facts about A.A. Blok
The brilliant poet of the Silver Age, an adherent of symbolism Alexander Blok lived a short life, but full of creativity. His poems, poems and dramas are known all over the world. He is the herald of "unheard of changes in Russia", who saw them at the beginning of the last century.
All the upheavals of the first years of the twentieth century passed through the soul of the poet, brought confusion, changed his worldview, but could not destroy his desire for the Ideal. “Neither need, nor censorship, nor friendship, nor even love broke him; he stayed the way he wanted to be." - wrote the wife of Alexander Alexandrovich Lyubov Dmitrievna Blok.
He was madly in love with Russia, her great story and culture, was looking for the Beautiful Lady, dedicating his work to her.
On November 28, the 133rd anniversary of the poet's birth, I propose interesting selection facts from his biography.
1. Alexander Blok was born in 1880, a significant event. The population of St. Petersburg was approaching a million. The magazines "Electricity" and "Aeronaut" began to appear. An electrical exhibition opened in the Salt Town, where the intelligentsia could marvel at the newly appeared miracles of the 19th century: telegraph and telephone sets, the phonograph, and the “electric gun”. Artillery officer Pirotsky launched the first transport based on current. Another officer, Mozhaisky, developed an airplane project, the revolutionary Kibalchich drew up a diagram of a jet aircraft. A year later, Kibalchich was executed for participating in regicide, and his project was buried in the gendarme archive. The building of a new university was laid in Tomsk.
Everyone was hotly discussing the forthcoming expedition to North Pole, the newspapers wrote about the Holodomor, and the general atmosphere heated up, saturated with an alarming spirit. And back in 1880, Pushkin's holiday was celebrated for the first time in Russia.
The brilliant poet of the Golden Age of Russian literature was a measure of the creativity of his colleagues at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries.
2. Alexander Alexandrovich spoke about his family like this: "Hospitality of the old nobles, thoughts - bright, feelings - simple and strict" . It was in such traditions of humanism, respect for the culture of "ancestors", high concepts of duty, honor, service and contempt for everything petty, vulgar, insignificant, mercantile that the future poet was brought up. The atmosphere of the Beketovsky House (A.A. Blok's maternal grandfather was the rector of St. Petersburg University), saturated with the ideas of humanism and liberalism, the spirit of poetry and art, Sasha was brought up.
His parents divorced early, but the son bore the name of his father - Alexander Lvovich Blok, a lawyer, professor at Warsaw University. As a small child, he grew up surrounded by a caring mother, adoring his grandmother and aunts. "Golden childhood, Christmas tree, noble pampering, nanny, Pushkin ..." - A.A. will write later. Blok in the poem "Retribution".
3. In his autobiography he writes: "FROM early childhood I remember the lyrical waves that constantly came over me, barely connected with someone else's name " . Most of all, Blok loved Pushkin, Zhukovsky, Polonsky. And his first literary experiments were imitative.
4. At the age of 11, Sasha went to the gymnasium, they immediately took him to the second grade. it educational institution made a depressing impression on him. When asked at home what impressed him most about school, he replied: "People." And in the diary that he kept from the age of 14, you can read it detailed description dull walls and poor teachers.
5. A relative of A.A. Blok was a famous poet and translator M.L. Lozinsky, who not only watched with interest literary development nephew, but often helped him with advice. Young Sasha even published his own Vestnik, a handwritten magazine where he put his poems, translations, essays, interviews with family members, unpretentious humor, he designed it with “funny pictures” from other publications. A total of 37 issues were published (from 1894–1897).
6. In 1897, Sasha fell in love for the first time, while relaxing with his mother in the German resort town of Bad Nauheim, with Xenia Mikhailovna Sadovskaya. She was a married woman, the same age as his mother (38 years old), an excellent pianist, a passionate admirer of Wagner's work.
The mother wrote to her relatives: “Sashura courted us here with great success, captivated the mistress, the mother of three children and the real state councilor ... It’s funny to look at Sashura in this role ... I don’t know if this courtship will be useful for Sashura in the sense of his adulthood and whether he will become after that more like a young man. Hardly" . Nevertheless, after parting, they corresponded for some time.
A.A. Blok dedicated a cycle of poems to her (the reader can see the initials K.M.S.). Moreover, the woman herself did not even suspect that in the lyrics of Blok she became the first Beautiful Lady. The secret of Xenia Mikhailovna was discovered by a doctor who treated her for a mental illness when she was already at an advanced age. It seems that nervous disorders- a disease of transitional time, full of upheavals.
So Blok's mother Anna Andreevna was also subject to them: she was repeatedly treated in a psychiatric hospital, revealing a tendency to suicide (tried to commit suicide 3 times) and suffering from melancholic seizures. Despite her bad heredity, she had a great influence on the formation of her son's tastes and character, and her sometimes excessive guardianship played a negative role.
Alexander was not ready for the emotional upheavals that fate had in store for him. He entered adulthood refined and infantile young man, reflecting on lofty matters and inclined to idealize those around him.
7. In 1898, Blok graduated from the gymnasium and received a certificate, in which there was only one in mathematical geography, six fours and five triples.
At this time, Alexander indulges in his passion - the theater. Back in 1896, in the Beketovskaya estate of Shakhmatovo, a private theater was organized through his efforts, where the young talent himself played roles. This hobby consumed him completely.
He gladly recited the monologues of Hamlet, the Miserly Knight, Don Juan, the poems of Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Apukhtin, Maikov, Tyutchev, Polonsky, Mickiewicz, Goethe. Surrounding predicted his acting future.
However, in the same year, Blok entered the university, like his own father, he chose a legal direction. And in 1901 he transferred to the Faculty of History and Philology.
By 1898 Blok was experiencing a new hobby. Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, the daughter of a famous chemist, struck his imagination. She was also fond of theater and often participated in chess performances. Here, in the role of Ophelia from Hamlet, she won the heart of the poet:
When in a silent, gloomy, dark hall
The shadow of my Ophelia appeared.
And, poor Hamlet, was I enchanted?
I was waiting for the desired sweet answer ...
We will find a whole cycle of "Hamlet" poems and lyrics about the beautiful Ophelia in the work of Alexander Alexandrovich.
8. 1901 is a turning point in his literary life. He was carried away by the poetry of Vladimir Solovyov, and mystical phenomena acquire conscious outlines in Blok's lyrics: “Until now, the mysticism with which the air of the last years of the old and the first years of the new century was saturated was incomprehensible to me; I was disturbed by the signs that I saw in nature, but I considered all this to be “subjective” and carefully protected from everyone. . Now he compares the events of his personal fate with what was sent from above.
At this time, Blok studies ancient philosophy, comprehends Plato.
Vl. Solovyov
Idealistic perception completely seizes him, and such an earthly Ophelia receives other characteristics, turning into a symbol of Eternal Femininity - a Beautiful Lady, carrying the mysterious light of new knowledge, feelings, insight.
The young poet expressed his feelings in a poem
I anticipate you. Years pass by
All in the guise of one anticipating You
The whole horizon is on fire - and unbearably clear,
And silently I wait, yearning and loving.
9. In 1903, the wedding of Blok and Lyubov Mendeleeva took place. The relationship of lovers make up a large cycle of lyrics: "Visions", "Divination", "Witchcraft" (1901), "Achievements" (1902). However happy family life did not work out.
Blok preferred an open relationship: he was madly in love with his wife and experienced hobbies with other women, for example, actress N.N. Volokhova, to whom the Snow Mask cycle (1907) is dedicated, and then L. Delmas, who played Carmen superbly.
The reader will find a cycle of poems dedicated to this heroine in his literary heritage.
How the ocean changes color
When in a heaped cloud
Suddenly a flashing light flashes, -
So the heart is melodious under a dream
Changes the system, afraid to breathe,
And the blood rushes to the cheeks,
And tears of happiness choke the chest
Before the appearance of Carmencita.
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N. Volokhova and L. Delmas
And Lyubov Dmitrievna herself has strange feelings for Andrei Bely, a friend and colleague in A.A. Blok.
10. In 1907, Blok experienced a mental crisis, which was reflected in his work: “Behind the Coffin”, “Mary”, “To Friends”, “Poets”, “She, as she wanted before ...” He feels his loneliness - his mother lives far away, the wife indulged in free love (after all, he himself let her go!), And upon returning to her native monastery, she turns out to be pregnant. Alexander accepts this child, deciding: “Let there be a child. Since we don’t have it, it will be our common one” .
In 1909, Lyubov gave birth to a baby who lived only 8 days. Yes, and Russia is going through hard times. During this period, the couple travel around Italy, touching the beauty that lived in the realities of the modern. And more and more often the poet is visited by thoughts about his great destiny.
Then there was France where the poet rethinks Russian history and reality. "My Russia, my life, can we toil together? .." - the poet is increasingly asking such questions.
11. In 1913, on the eve of the First World War, the poet’s anxiety did not leave: the Black Hundreds became embittered, Rasputin rampaged, the high-profile case of Beilis stirred up the public, the dark forces of obscurantism took possession of the minds. The poet reflected the inevitability of change:
He is brought - this iron rod -
Above our head. And we
We fly, we fly over the formidable abyss
In the midst of the growing darkness.
And only then comes the theme of retribution - this is the name of the poem that Blok wrote for 10 years.
12. Oddly enough October coup Blok accepted with all his heart, having heard the revolutionary element in the symphony of the winds. The previous cycle of reflections on the fate of Russia in the rebellious years was reflected in the new lyrics of the poet.
His "Poems about Russia" was enthusiastically received by the public. Whether the aspirations of the poet were justified, it is difficult to say. His famous poem "The Twelve" (1918) still evokes various interpretations.
13. Last years life, the family hearth is renewed. Blok becomes a faithful husband. He tries to find himself in a new life under construction Soviet state. From 1918 to 1920 he works in various commissions, organizations and departments. However, he barely makes ends meet. Damp, dank rooms undermined his health.
By 1920, many ailments struck his body: asthma, cardiovascular insufficiency, nervous disorders, and scurvy became the last blow of fate. Blok was simply starving, and his immunity weakened, which could not cope with the onset of pneumonia. In 1921, the brilliant poet died.
14. The almost mystical death of Blok gave rise to many rumors. There were versions that he was poisoned, doctors claimed that the poet was killed by endocarditis, there was an assumption that venereal diseases led to his death. And the diagnosis of Blok himself was, of course, prophetic: "The poet dies because he has nothing left to breathe."
15. Blok was buried at the Smolensk cemetery in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), in 1944 the ashes of the poet were reburied at Literary bridges (Volkovskoye cemetery).
Alexander Blok is a great writer, whose work we could get acquainted with school years. But at school, not everyone talked about this incredible person. This person was able to become a great poet of the Silver Age, and all thanks to the perseverance, hard work and efforts of Alexander Blok.
2. Blok died at the age of 41.
3. In the winter of 1919, Blok was arrested for 1.5 days.
4. The wife of Alexander Blok was the daughter of the chemist Mendeleev.
5. Alexander Blok attributed love story with writer Anna Akhmatova.
6. At the age of 9, Blok was able to enter the Vedeno gymnasium.
7. Before he died, Blok was delirious.
8. An asteroid that was found in 1971 was named after Blok.
9. Alexander Blok was very fond of ice cream and beer.
10. Pope Alexander Blok was associated with jurisprudence.
11. Block was able to write his first verse at the age of 5.
12. Alexander Blok was born in St. Petersburg.
13. From an early age, the little poet began to get involved in poetry.
14. Alexander Blok became interested in theater from an early age.
15. Almost a year after the wedding, Alexander Blok did not want to touch his wife.
16. Alexander Blok is a vulnerable and impressionable person.
17. Alexander Blok had to cheat on his wife with actresses, opera singers, because he was not squeamish about prostitutes.
18. Blok lived with his wife for 18 years.
19. Blok and his wife had no children.
20. The wife of Alexander Blok and his mother could not get along with each other.
21. When there was a revolution, Alexander Blok did not emigrate.
22. Alexander Blok is a recognized poet of the Silver Age.
23. At the age of 11, Blok dedicated a cycle of his creations to his mother.
24. Young Blok fell ill with romanticism and fell in love at the age of 17.
25. In 1916, the poet was called to serve the Motherland.
26. Alexander Blok served in the engineering and construction troops.
27. For the first time, Alexander Blok fell in love while traveling with his mother in Germany.
28. Alexander Blok also received an education at St. Petersburg University.
29. First, Blok studied at the Faculty of Law, and then at the Faculty of History and Philology.
30. The rector of the university where Blok studied was his grandfather, A.N. Becket.
31. At the age of 16, Alexander Blok had to take up acting because he wanted to conquer the audience.
32. In 1909, Alexander Blok rested with his wife in Italy and Germany.
33. Block's creative path contained several directions.
34. Alexander Blok was interested in children's literature, and therefore he wrote many poems specifically for children.
35. Blok had a heart disease.
36. At the age of 9, Alexander Blok published a magazine called Ship.
37. The Beketov family from childhood tried to protect Blok from everything bad.
38. Blok was a well-mannered and neat boy.
39. Blok's mother, Alexandra Andreevna, was the daughter of the rector of the university.
40. At the age of 9, Blok's mother left his dad.
41. The mother of Alexander Blok preferred the guards officer Kublitz-Piottukh instead of his father.
42. Alexander Blok accepted the revolution with particular enthusiasm.
43. The poet's childhood years were spent in the Grenada barracks, which are located near St. Petersburg.
44. In 1912, Blok wrote a drama called "The Rose and the Cross".
45. The poet died of inflammation of the heart valve.
46. Blok served in Belarus during the 1st World War.
47. In 1918, Blok appeared a rather mysterious work "The Twelve".
48. The last touch of Alexander Blok was the cycle of poems "Scythians".
49. Blok was suspected of an anti-Soviet conspiracy.
50. In 1920, Alexander Blok's stepfather died.
51. Before his death, Blok tried to destroy his own manuscripts.
52. In the early 1920s, Alexander Blok suffered from insufficient funds and hunger.
53. The poet rests at the Volkovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.
54. Shortly before his death, Alexander Blok developed asthma and mental illness.
55. Alexander Blok was an adherent of symbolism.
56. At the beginning of the spring of the 1920s, Alexander Blok applied for a visa.
57. Blok's dramas and poems are known all over the world.
58. Alexander Blok was crazy about Russia.
59. In addition to his wife, Alexander Blok was associated with 2 more women: opera singer Andreeva-Delmas and actress Natalya Volokhova.
60. Alexander Blok died in his own apartment.
61. In 1889, a stepfather appeared in Blok's life.
62. Despite the fact that Blok's parents were divorced, he bears his father's surname.
63. Blok traveled to France in 1913.
64. In 1911 Blok traveled around France.
65. Alexander Blok valued Zhukovsky, Polonsky and Pushkin above all else.
66. Blok developed such a concept as symbolism.
67. The first woman of the Blok was Ksenia Mikhailovna.
68. Blok's wife was not faithful to her own husband because she cheated on him.
69. Alexander Blok tried to challenge his wife's lover to a duel.
70. Blok's wife gave birth to a child from another man. A few days after birth, the baby died.
71. The works of this poet until now cause an ambiguous reaction and disputes among writers.
72. The last book published by Blok was Ramses.
73. Alexander Blok had to perform at the Bolshoi Drama Theater.
74. In 1920, Alexander began to develop signs of depression.
75. Anatoly Lunacharsky rescued Alexander Blok from prison.
76. In the spring of 1912, Alexander Blok was invited to go fishing, but he did not go there, which saved his own life. Blok's comrades, who were then on the boat, capsized.
77. Having visited Italy in 1909, Alexander wrote unique poems that became a pass to the Academy of Writers Society.
78. In the house of the Beketovs, where Blok spent his childhood, they loved poetry.
79. Blok had an affair with Ksenia Sadovskaya for 4 years.
80. Blok and Ksenia met at a resort.
81. The revolutionary events were perceived by Blok with particular enthusiasm.
82. Lyubov Mendeleev Blok met his future wife during his university years.
83. In the course of the revolutionary years, Blok departed from symbolism.
84. Blok's poetic creations are characterized by mysticism.
85. The works of Alexander Blok were distinguished by their organic nature, deep unity and intense dynamics of the development of events.
86. Blok's name is perceived by people as a symbol of modernity.
87. The work of Alexander Blok is included in the curriculum of each school in literature.
88. Blok and his wife lived separately from each other for a long time.
89. During deadly disease Alexander Blok's spouses reunited.
90.1906-1907 for Blok was a period of reassessment of values.
91. When Alexander Blok lived in post-revolutionary St. Petersburg, he learned about the death of his first love, Ksenia Sadovskaya.
92. Ksenia Sadovskaya, who was Blok's woman, is twice his age.
93. Friends of Alexander Blok thought that it was from hopelessness and grief that the poet took the path of death.
94. The first book of Alexander Blok - "Poems about a beautiful lady."
95. Blok's service in the army prompted him to write a book called " Last days imperial power."
96. Before his death, the poet deliberately refused to drink and eat.
97. The poet was cremated.
98. Alexander Blok was fascinated by socialism.
99. Blok had no luck with women.
100. Blok's father died in 1909.
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Alexander Blok was born on November 16, 1880. He lived a short life - he died when he was only 41 - but a rich life, forever securing the glory of a genius and one of the brightest poets Silver Age. His works: dramatic, poems, cycles of poems - are still entangled in the disputes of critics, symbols, signs, hints, penetrating his works, make them relevant today. We remember the most interesting milestones of his life.
A few months before his death, the poet, as usual, read his poems at the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Before his speech, Chukovsky took the floor, saying a lot of good things about Blok, after Blok himself read his poems about Russia. As his contemporaries later recalled, the atmosphere was too solemn and sad, and one of the spectators breathed out an almost prophetic phrase: “This is some kind of commemoration!”. This was his last performance on the stage of this theater.
In February 1919, Blok was arrested for a day and a half. He was suspected of conspiring against Soviet power. But then Anatoly Lunacharsky put in a good word for him, and the poet was released.
Blok was married to the daughter of the famous chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. They had known each other since childhood, the scientist was on friendly terms with the poet's grandfather. Feelings for Lyubov Mendeleeva were so sublime that Alexander Blok was afraid for a long time to spoil them, to discredit them with carnal relations. It was her image that formed the basis of "Poems about the Beautiful Lady."
Alexander Blok was credited with an affair with Anna Akhmatova. However, after the death of the poet, Akhmatova returned to this topic more than once in her memoirs, dispelling all the rumors about the "monstrous passion for Blok."
Before his death, Alexander Blok was delirious for several days. Almost in an unconscious state, he only remembered one thing: if there were any copies of his poem "The Twelve" accidentally left. The poet wanted to completely destroy it.
Perhaps the most famous poem Block "Night, street, lamp, pharmacy ..." on Leiden Street in the Netherlands is captured in the form of a monument - it is written on the wall of one of the houses as part of the worldwide project "Wall poems".
Asteroid 2540, which was discovered in 1971, was given the name of Alexander Blok.
If you believe the questionnaire that Blok filled out in one of the sanatoriums where he had to rest, he had a passion for beer and ice cream.
Alexander Blok wrote his first poems at the age of five.
Many of Blok's works could never have been born, and the years of the poet's own life would be noticeably reduced, if not for the occasion. The poet was friendly with the artist Sapunov, and in early April 1912 the artist called him and his friends to rest in a fishing village. Blok could not keep them company. Luckily. One night, friends went boating. But the boat capsized. Sapunov drowned because he couldn't swim. Block, by the way, could not swim either. Therefore, his fate could be the same if he were there.
Each student is familiar with school curriculum with the work of many great writers, but how little we know about the personality of these people. One of them is Alexander Blok. Interesting Facts from the life of the poet confirm the originality of this man, who became the greatest poet of the Silver Age.
- Block began writing short poems and stories at the age of five.. He recorded his creations in albums and made drawings for them. Little Sasha devoted almost all his work to his mother.
- Having become older, Blok, with the help of his relatives, was engaged in the publication of the Vestnik magazine. where many of his works were written by hand.
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- The years spent within the walls of the Vvedenskaya gymnasium, where he was sent at the age of 11, were difficult for young Sasha.. After a quiet and measured life at home, the boy ended up in a noisy group of peers. Alexander made friends only at the end of his studies.
- The poet's work was influenced by Vladimir Solovyov, whose poetry Blok met in his first year at the university.
- Alexander's first love was a woman 20 years older than him.. Blok met Ksenia Sadovskaya in a small German town when he was 17 years old. Their relationship lasted 4 years, until Alexander became interested in his future wife.
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- Ksenia Sadovskaya only before her death found out how much the poet loved her. The proof of his passion was letters with touching poems, which never reached the addressee.
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- Blok's wife was Lyubov Mendeleeva, who knew him young years
. He dedicated "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" to her. To make an offer to Lyuba, the writer went with a suicide note in his pocket, since if he refused, he would commit suicide. Alexander idealized his wife and did not want to destroy the perfect image of a woman he created with physical intimacy. Blok himself often had sexual intercourse on the side, so he accepted his wife's betrayal with his friend Andrei Bely with understanding. Despite the fact that Lyubov Dmitrievna seduced her husband 2 years after the wedding, the Bloks had no children.
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- At one time there were rumors about Blok's affair with Akhmatova, but Anna denied them in her memoirs..
- Blok's consent to a meeting with a little-known writer at that time and high mark his poetry influenced creative activity Sergei Yesenin.
- In one of the questionnaires that are filled out on vacation, the poet indicated that he loves beer and ice cream..
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- The world could lose the greatest poet, if Blok agreed to a fishing trip. In 1912, he was invited to go fishing by his friend, an artist named Sapunov. The writer could not go. One day the boat with the fishermen capsized and Sapunov drowned because he, like Blok, could not swim.
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- Blok, like Vladimir Mayakovsky, reacted well to the revolution. The poem "The Twelve" written by Blok at that time was enthusiastically received. ordinary people. Workers and soldiers applauded the writer. But a large number of intellectuals and even friends expressed indignation and refused to communicate with Blok. Zinaida Gippius, a well-known writer and critic of that time, called Blok a traitor and sent him her book dedicated to the fight against the Bolsheviks. The poet, in turn, sent her the poem "The Twelve".
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- In 1919, Blok was arrested on suspicion of acting against the power of the Soviets.. Thanks to the politician Lunacharsky, the poet was released after a day and a half.
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- Alexander inherited from his parents not only a love of literature and art, but also a mental disorder. His father suffered from this disease, and his grandfather died in psychiatric hospital. Even the poet's mother, who left her husband because of oddities in his behavior, was herself repeatedly treated for mental illness. In the last month of his life, Blok's mind clouded, he was delirious and wanted to get rid of the books with his poem "The Twelve". Mayakovsky believed that this book killed the writer.
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- Shortly before his death, Blok performed on the stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater, reading his poems.. The atmosphere in the hall was depressing, and one of the spectators remarked: “This is some kind of commemoration!”. It turned out that this was the writer's last appearance on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.
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The poet was born at the end of the nineteenth century in St. Petersburg. His parents belonged to the local intelligentsia. Father, Alexander Lvovich, was a professor at Warsaw University. Mother, Alexandra Andreeva, worked as a translator. Parents did not live long in marriage.
After the divorce of his parents, Alexander lived with his mother.
The childhood of the great poet took place at my grandfather's house. It is this place that evokes the warmest memories of the poet. The nature around was just magical. This greatly inspired the young Alexander.
Relationship with mom were warm, trusting and sincere. Blok loved his mother with all his heart, because it was she who laid in him a craving for poetry.
The first person to see Blok's poems was, of course, my mother. It was she who was both a kind critic and a support for the young author. The mediation of the mother was very great, and the contribution to the formation of the poet was difficult to assess.
Alexander was educated at the Vvedenskaya gymnasium, and later left with his mother for the Nemean resort of Bad Nauheim.
First love Blok was Sadovskaya. She won the heart of a young man, but there could be no relationship. They had a huge age difference, about ten years.
It was Ksenia Sadovskaya who was the muse for Alexander. Many of his works are dedicated to a beautiful woman.
After graduating from high school, Blok entered the University in your hometown. Initially, he studied at the faculty of jurisprudence, and later moved to another faculty related to history.
The beginning of the creative path of Alexander Blok
The first impulses of creativity began at a young age. Author wrote the first poems at the age of five. FROM early age he was an inquisitive boy: he read many books, went to theaters and was an art lover.
Blok began to actively engage in creative work in the early years of the twentieth century.
First time, Block began publishing his creations in the New Way magazine owned by Merezhkovsky and Gippius.
Alexander immediately loved the symbolism. He strove for experimentation, the destruction of stable stagnation and risk. The author rejected realism, paying great attention only to symbolism. After the author's poems appeared in the "New Way", he began to be published in the almanac "Northern Flowers".
In 1903, the cycle of works "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" was published. The woman was one of the key themes in Blok's works. He considered the fair sex to be a real source of goodness and light.
Revolutions in Blok's work
This historical process left a peculiar imprint on Blok's work. The events that took place during the revolution greatly influenced the poet and his worldview. The theme of love faded into the background.
Blok began to try himself in the role of a playwright, writing the play "Balaganchik", which was staged on the stage of the theater in 1906.
The main theme of the 1920s was the problem of the relationship between the common people and the intelligentsia. It was a trend in creativity - to write about what excites the soul so much. All his poems about the Motherland were imbued with patriotism and individuality. Each of them had an identity.
Blok was not categorical towards the Soviet power. He even collaborated with her. All the events of those times are reflected in his poetry. Block was easy-going and quickly adapted to new events in life.
It was at this time that Blok wrote the verse "Scythians" and the famous poem "The Twelve".
The last years of the poet's life
After October revolution began a difficult stage in the life of the poet. Alexander began to get sick often. He suffered from diseases such as asthma, heart disease and scurvy.
Alexander Blok is considered one of the most significant figures in Russian poetry. His fate was not easy, but he left a deep mark on the history and culture of Russia.