Alexander Blok

Alexander Blok (1880-1921) was born in Saint Petersburg; his father taught law in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather, the botanist Andrei Beketov, was rector of the University of Saint Petersburg. In 1903 he married Lyubov Mendeleeva, and his first major collection, published in 1904, made him one of the major figures of Russian symbolism. He accepted the October Revolution, then turned away from it and almost stopped writing. He died in Petrograd on 7 August 1921, aged forty.

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• PoetryThe TwelveДвенадцатьAlexander Blok · 1918LiteraturePublic domain