Dates: the poet Alexander Blok was born on November 28, 1880
November 28, RIA Birobidzhan.
Alexander Blok (November 28, 1880 – August 7, 1921) – Russian poet of the Silver Age. Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was born (16) November 28, 1880 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a professor of philosophy and law. The boy was raised by his grandfather, the famous botanist A.N. Beketov. Already at the age of five, Alexander begins to write poetry. They say he inherited a poetic gift from his father. RIA Birobidzhan with reference to site CALEND.RU.
“After grammar school in 1898, Blok entered the Faculty of Law at St. Petersburg University, but then transferred to the Faculty of History and Philology, from which he graduated in 1906 in the Slavic-Russian department. During this period, he became close to the Symbolists Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Valery Bryusov and Andrei Bely.
The poet published his first cycle of poems “From Dedications” in his student days in the magazine “New Way”. At the same time, his first book of poems, “Poems about a Beautiful Lady,” was published, dedicated to Lyubov Dmitrievna, the daughter of the famous chemist Mendeleev, whom Blok married in 1903.
The second book of poems was published in the period 1904-1908, dedicated to the poet’s experiences and thoughts on the theme of the revolutionary events that took place in the country and greatly influenced Blok. The theme of Russia and feelings about the fate of the people are reflected in his work – in the collections “Motherland”, “On the Kulikovo Field”, “Land in the Snow”, in the poems “Scythians”, “Retribution”.
In the same period, Blok worked as an editor of criticism in the magazine “Golden Fleece” and the flag of the school of symbolism, and also, turning to the theater, wrote “lyric dramas” – “Balaganchik”, “The King in the Square”, “Stranger”.
In 1909, after his death, the block received an inheritance that he needed to travel to Italy and focused on literary creativity. And the impressions of the trip were embodied in the cycle “Italian Poems”. In 1911, he published the collection Night Hours, and also revised five books of poetry of his works in a three-volume collection of poems (during the poet’s lifetime, it was reprinted several times). In the same period he wrote the play “The Rose and the Cross”, which was liked by K. Stanislavsky and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, but the drama was never staged in the theater.
During the First World War, in the summer of 1916, Blok was drafted into the army, he served in the engineering unit of the Zemsky Union in Belarus.
After the February Revolution of 1917, which the poet received with mixed feelings, but refused to emigrate, he returned to Petrograd. Here, as an editor of verbatim records, he became a member of the “Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry for the Investigation of the highest-ranking former members of the government, chief executive officers and other officials of both civilian and military and naval departments.” In the summer of 1917, Blok began work on the manuscript, which he considered as part of the future report of this commission, these materials were published in the form of a book in 1921 under the title “The Last Days of the Imperial Power”.
Blok enthusiastically accepted the October Revolution of 1917 and immediately took an active civil position. The new government widely used the name of the poet in 1918-1920, Blok was appointed and elected to various positions in committees and commissions. But he did not abandon literary creation either. In January 1918, his poems “The Twelve” and “Scythians” were published, followed by a series of poems, lyric fragments “Neither Dreams, nor Reality” and “Confessions of a Pagan”, feuilletons “Russian Dandies”, “Compatriots”, “Answer to the Question about red print “.
However, the poet’s financial situation forced him to seek not only literary earnings, but also civil service. Since 1918, he collaborated with the Theater Department of the People’s Commissariat for Education, in April 1919 he moved to the Bolshoi Drama Theater and at the same time was a member of the editorial board of the publishing house “World Literature”, in 1920 he became chairman of the Petrograd branch of the Union of Poets.
And although the bloc sincerely believed that work and participation in cultural and educational institutions was the duty of the intelligentsia to the people, it gradually became more and more disillusioned with the Soviet regime. In the articles and manuscripts of the poet appears the catacomb existence of culture. In February 1921, at an evening in memory of Alexander Pushkin in the House of Writers, Blok delivered his famous speech “On the appointment of a poet.”
The ever-increasing volume of work undermined the poet’s strength – he developed serious cardiovascular disease and asthma. In the spring of 1921, Blok asked for an exit visa to Finland for treatment, but the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), at which this issue was considered, refused him …
On August 7, 1921, the poet Alexander Alexandrovich Blok died in Petrograd, where he was buried at the Smolensk cemetery. In 1944, the poet’s ashes were reburied at the Literatorskie Mostki of the Volkovsky cemetery.
In 1980, in the house on Dekabristov Street, where the poet lived and died in recent years, the museum of Alexander Blok’s apartment was opened. In Shakhmatovo, where Blok spent his childhood and adolescence, there is the A.A. Blok, ”the article says.
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