And Ablock is biography

Alexander Kotov translator, philologist-literary critic, laureate of prestigious awards in the field of literature and education, including nominal scholarships named after Solzhenitsyn and A. Blok did not remember his father: when he was still a baby, his parents broke up, and after nine years his mother married a second time. In the year he entered the Vvedensky gymnasium. According to the bloc itself, training in the gymnasium had a lesser influence on it than the home environment - “the ancient noble atmosphere with literary tastes”.

He had a trusting relationship with his stepfather, a guards officer. Blok will devote several poems to him, including the collection “Poems about Russia”. In addition to the mother and the stepfather, the bloc is brought up by grandmothers, nannies, aunts, among whom Maria Beketova stands out, the sister of the mother, known as the author of outstanding memories of the poet.

As soon as the little Sasha was crying, his grandfather, Professor Beketov, the rector of St. Petersburg State University, immediately took him in his arms and talked about ships. So begins the unbearable thrust of the block to the sea and ships. Grandfather became his first friend: with him they played the robbers, turning the whole apartment upside down, and went for walks.

In the gymnasium years, the manuscript magazine "Vestnik" publishes with his brothers. The magazine became the collective work of the Blok family: grandmother composed poems, mother - fairy tales, grandfather painted illustrations. The family talked a lot about literature: it is not surprising that the block began to write so early. In his first verses, he described a wonderful nature in Shakhmatovo, Moscow Region, where Blok often visited.

This type of art turned his whole life upside down: he with rapture looks at the plays of Griboedov, Moliere, Shakespeare and even thinks to become an actor. He loves to recite the verses of Maykov and Fet from the stage, dreams of playing the role of Hamlet. Love for the theater will remain with him until his death. Despite the considerable difference in age, the young poet experiences pure, bright feelings for her, which will be reflected in the poet’s love lyrics.

So in the year, Blok recalls his relationship with Sadovskaya: life has long been burned and told, only the first dreams of love, as an invaluable casket is tied with a red ribbon like blood. The daughter of chemist Dmitry Mendeleev became one of the main muses in the life of Blok: it was she who is the very beautiful lady, the heroine of the most famous cycle of the poet. Although not only Blok experienced tender feelings for her: another representative of the Silver Age, the poet and prose writer Andrei Bely was passionately in love with Mendeleev.

This love triangle was reflected in the play of the Bloc of the Year Rose and the Cross. The play received positive reviews of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, but was never staged in the theater. From a trip to Italy, the poet brings poems, thanks to which he is accepted into the "society of zealots of the artistic word." In July, the bloc is called up for service in the army.

The revolution is approaching, which the block awaits with mixed feelings. It cannot be said that the poet was seriously treated by military service: his favorite pastime in the army was entertainment feasts and visiting the hippodrome. On the one hand, he supported the fact of political changes in the country, he understood the revolution as a riot, and accepted it with enthusiasm.

On the other hand, he was not sure of the correctness of the political course taken by the Bolsheviks. However, the October Revolution, like the events of the year, played a key role in the poet’s creative biography: it resembled the element that pulled him out of the usual course of events. Unlike other symbolists - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Anna Akhmatova, Zinaida Gippius, who negatively spoke about the political course taken by the Soviet government, the bloc from the principle began to cooperate with the authorities.

Being a convinced opponent of emigration, he believed that there should be a time difficult for the country with Russia, so he did not want to stay away. His largest work - the poem “Twelve” - he writes about this. He is sure: the February and October Revolutions are just the beginning of future changes. He calls on the intelligentsia not to remain aloof, to accept the destruction of the old world and believe in the construction of a new one.

The block sincerely believes in the correctness of the course of the Soviet government and with all its might longs to attach a hand to the common cause. However, he does not suspect that cooperation with the authorities will lead his life to the tragic ending.