Block Biography 3

His father was Alexander Lvovich Blok, who worked as a professor at the University of Warsaw, and his mother was translator Alexander Andreevna Beketov, whose father was the rector of St. Petersburg University. For her first wife, the mother of the future poet went back at the age of eighteen, and shortly after the birth of the boy, she decided to break all the ties with an unloved husband.

Subsequently, the poet’s parents practically did not communicate with each other. In childhood, Alexander Blok was rare and condemned by society, but in the year the self -sufficient and purposeful Alexander Blok ensured that the Holy Government Synod officially dissolved her marriage with Alexander Lvovich. Soon after, the daughter of the famous Russian botanist again married already with true love: for the officer of the guard of Kublitsky-Piotuha.

Alexandra Andreevna did not change his surname to his or to the intricate surname of his stepfather, and the future poet remained Blok. Sasha spent his childhood in the house of his grandfather. In the summer, he left for Shakhmatovo for a long time and through his whole life he carried warm memories of the time spent there. Moreover, Alexander Blok lived with his mother and her new husband on the outskirts of St.

Petersburg. Alexander Blok in his youth between the future poet and his mother always had an incomprehensible spiritual connection. It was she who opened the works of Baudler, Polonsky, Verlaine, Fet and other famous poets. Alexandra Andreevna and her young son together studied new trends in philosophy and poetry, fascinated conversations regarding the latest news of politics and culture.

Subsequently, it was his mother’s mother Blok who primarily read his works and it was with her that he was looking for comfort, understanding and support. In the year, the boy began to study at the Vvedensky gymnasium. Some time later, when Sasha was already 16 years old, he went with his mother on a trip abroad and stayed for some time in the city of Bad Nauheme-the popular German resort of those times.

Despite his young age, on vacation, he selflessly fell in love with Ksenia Sadovskaya, who at that time was 37 years old. Naturally, there was no question of any relationship between a teenager with an adult woman. However, the charming Ksenia Sadovskaya, her image, captured in the memory of the block, subsequently became inspiration for him when writing many works.

Alexander Blok, in his youth in the year, Alexander completed his studies at the gymnasium and successfully passed the entrance exams at the University of St. Petersburg, choosing jurisprudence for his career. Three years after that, he nevertheless transferred to the historical and philological department, choosing for himself the Slavic-Russian direction. The poet completed training at the university in the year.

During the receipt of higher education, he met with Alexei Remizov, Sergey Gorodetsky, and also became friends with Sergey Solovyov, who was his second cousin. The family of Blok, especially on the maternal line, continued the beginning of work, continued the highly cultural family, which could not but affect Alexander. From a young age, he read numerous books, was fond of the theater and even attended the corresponding circle in St.

Petersburg, and also tried his strength in poetic work.

The boy wrote the first straightforward works at the age of five, and as a teenager, he enthusiastically engaged in writing a manuscript magazine in the company of brothers. An important event of the beginning of the years for Alexander Alexandrovich was the marriage of Lyubov Mendeleeva, who came to the eminent Russian scientist Dmitry Mendeleev. The relationship between young spouses was complex and peculiar, but filled with love and passion.

Lyubov Dmitrievna also became a source of inspiration and the prototype of a number of characters in the works of the poet. Alexander Blok talk about the full creative career of the Blok since the years. At that time, Alexander Alexandrovich became an even more devoted admirer of the work of Athanasius Fet, as well as the lyrics of Vladimir Solovyov and even the teachings of Plato.

In addition, fate brought him to Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius, in the magazine whose magazine “New Way” Blok took his first steps as a poet and criticism. At the early stage of his creative development, Alexander Alexandrovich realized that symbolism is close to him in literature. This movement, which pierced all varieties of culture, was distinguished by innovation, the desire for experiments, a love of mystery and understatement.

It is noteworthy that approximately when Blok began to be published in the St. Petersburg “New Way”, his works began to print the Moscow Almanac called “Northern Flowers”. Alexander Blok and Zinaida Gippius, a special place in the heart of Alexander Blok occupied a circle of young admirers and followers of Vladimir Solovyov, organized in Moscow. The role of the peculiar leader of this circle was taken by Andrei Bely, at that time - a beginner prose writer and poet.Andrei became a close friend of Alexander Alexandrovich, and members of the literary circle were one of the most devoted and enthusiastic fans of his work.

In the year in the Almanac “Northern Flowers” ​​a cycle of works of a block called “Poems about a beautiful lady” was printed. Then the three verses of the young rhymplelet were included in the collection of works by pupils of the Imperial St. Petersburg University. In his first famous cycle, the block presents a woman as a natural source of light and purity, and raises the question of how real love that brings a separate personality closer to the world.

The revolution of the years revolutionary events became for Alexander Alexandrovich the personification of the spontaneous, the disordered nature of being and quite significantly influenced his creative views. The beautiful lady in his thoughts and verses was replaced by images of blizzards, snowstorms and vagrancy, bold and ambiguous Faina, a snow mask and a stranger. Poems about love have faded into the background.

Drama and interaction with the theater at that time also carried away the poet. The first play, written by Alexander Alexandrovich, was called "Balaganchik" and was compiled by Vsevolod Meyerhold at the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theater in the year. Volokhova soon filled the philosophical poems of the Blok: the poet dedicated to her the Faina cycle and the book “The Snow Mask”, we wrote off the heroines of the plays “The Song of Fate” and “The King in the Square” from it.

At the end, the main theme of the work of Blok was the problem of the ratio of the common people and the intelligentsia in domestic society. In the verses of this period, one can trace a vivid crisis of individualism and attempts to determine the place of the Creator in the conditions of the real world. At the same time, Alexander Alexandrovich associated his homeland with the image of his beloved wife, which is why his patriotic poems acquired a special, deeply personal individuality.

The rejection of symbolism was very difficult for Alexander Blok: this year his father died, with whom he nevertheless maintained a rather warm relationship, as well as the newborn child of the poet and his wife Lyudmila. Nevertheless, the impressive inheritance that Alexander Block Sr. left his son allowed him to forget about financial difficulties and focus on major creative projects.

In the same year, the poet visited Italy, and the overseas atmosphere prompted him even more to revaluation of previously prevailing values. The cycle “Italian Poems” tells about this internal struggle, as well as prosaic essays from the book “Lightning of Art”. In the end, the bloc came to the conclusion that symbolism, as a school with strictly designated rules, has exhausted himself for him, and from now on he was necessary for self -deepening and “spiritual diet”.

Alexander Blok concentrated on large literary works, Alexander Alexandrovich gradually began to devote less and less time to journalistic work and the appearance of diverse events that were in the course of the poetic bohemia of those times. In the year, the author began to compose an epic poem called “Retribution”, which he was not destined to finish. In the period from the years, he wrote the famous play “Rose and the Cross”.

And in the year, Blok, taking on the basis of five books with poetry, compiled collected works in three volumes, which was reprinted several times. The October Revolution of the Soviet government did not cause Alexander Blok such a negative attitude as in many other poets of the “Silver Age”. At a time when Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Prishvin, Zinaida Gippius, Julius Aichenwald, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and many others criticized the Bolsheviks who came to power, Blok agreed to cooperate with the new state leadership.

The name of the poet, who by that time was quite well known to the public, was actively used by the authorities for their own purposes. Among other things, Alexander Alexandrovich was constantly appointed to his uninteresting positions in various commissions and institutions. It was at that time that the poem “Scythians” and the famous poem “Twelve” was written.

The last image of the “twelve”: Jesus Christ, who turned out to be at the head of the procession from the twelve soldiers of the Red Army, caused a real resonance in the literary world. Although now this work is considered one of the best creations of the times of the “Silver Age” of Russian poetry, most contemporaries of Blok spoke about the poem, especially about the image of Jesus, in an extremely negative way.

Personal life is the first and only wife of Blok - Mendeleev’s love, in which he was insanely in love and which he considered his real fate. The wife was for the writer support and support, as well as an unchanged muse. Alexander Blok with his wife Lyubov Mendeleeva, however, the ideas about the marriage of the poet were quite peculiar: firstly, he was categorically against bodily intimacy, singing the spiritual love.

Secondly, until the last years of his life, Blok did not consider it shameful to fall in love with other representatives of the fair sex, although his women never had such significance for him as his wife.However, Mendeleev’s love also allowed herself to be carried away by other men. The death of the poet after the October Revolution took place not only of interesting facts from the life of Alexander Alexandrovich.

Loaded by an incredible amount of responsibilities, not belonging to himself, he began to hurt a lot. At the bloc, asthma, cardiovascular disease appeared, mental disorders began to form. In the year, the author fell ill with scurvy. At the same time, the poet was experiencing a period of financial difficulties. The funeral of Alexander Blok is inflammation of the heart valves.

The funeral and the funeral service of the poet was made by Archpriest Alexei Zapadalov, the grave of Blok is located in the Smolensk Orthodox cemetery. The grave of Alexander Blok shortly before his death, the writer tried to get permission to travel abroad for treatment, but he was refused. It is said that after that the block, being in a sober mind and common reason, destroyed his notes and fundamentally did not take either medicine or even food.

For a long time there were also rumors that before his death, Alexander Alexandrovich went crazy and raved about the thought of whether all the copies of his poem “Twelve” were destroyed. However, these rumors did not find their confirmation. Site section:.