Blok Alexander Alexandrovich is a great Russian poet who gained fame at the beginning of the 20th century. Singing the Russian Revolution in his works, Blok did not get tired of dedicating poetry to his only love, which he carried through his whole life.
Chronological table
November 16, 1880 - the date of birth of the poet.
1889-1898 - studying at the gymnasium.
1898-1906 - studies at St. Petersburg University. Slavic-Russian Department of the Faculty of History and Philology.
1903 - Blok's marriage to Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva.
1904 - the first book of the poet en titled "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" dedicated to his wife is published.
1905-1908 - Alexander Blok's realization of his true commitment to the ideas of the revolution. All subsequent work of the poet was associated with the glorification of the bright undertakings of the Bolsheviks. The poet was recognized and highly appreciated by his compatriots.
1907-1911 - Blok's travels in Italy, Germany, Europe. A series of wonderful works has been created. "Italian verses" - an outstanding creation of the poet.
1916 - the beginning of service in the army, in engineeringconstruction team.
1917 - work in the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry. "The Last Days of Imperial Power" is a book written by Blok based on his experience.
1921 - Blok's last public appearances before the people.
August 7, 1921, the poet died of an unknown illness.
Representative of the Russian intelligentsia
Blok's timeline begins in St. Petersburg. The famous Russian poet was born in 1880, on November 16 (according to the new style - November 28). The family of Russian intellectuals, in which the boy was brought up, from childhood gave the poet ideas about beauty, respect for science and literature. Alexander Blok's grandfather A. N. Beketov was the rector of the university, his mother Alexandra Andreevna worked as a translator, his father Alexander Lvovich Blok served as a law professor at Warsaw University. Blok's chronological table includes one difficult event in the poet's childhood - the divorce of his parents. The child remained to be brought up in the grandfather's family, surrounded by a loving mother, aunts and grandmothers in the Shakhmatovo estate.
But the poet had his father's surname. Blok Alexander Alexandrovich remained until the end of his life the son of his father, although at the age of nine he moved with his mother to his stepfather. Alexandra Andreevna remarried a Guards officer and took her son with her. In the same 1889, little Sasha entered the gymnasium.
Creativity
Raised on the works of A. S. Pushkin, V. A. Zhukovsky, A. A. Fet, the poet becamecreate from an early age. Already at the age of five, Alexander Blok began to write poetry, surprising and delighting his family. Of course, his first creations were an imitation of the works he had read, but his poetic talent had a clear effect. Over time, Blok's works were filled with strength, he wrote more, in childhood he even tried to publish magazines. Youthful loves were reflected in poems. As an adult, Blok dedicated cycles of poems to women. A beautiful lady - the image that arose in the heart of the poet was forever imprinted in his works. The prototype was Lyubov Mendeleev - the poet's wife and lover.
Only love
The poet met his Beautiful Lady almost in infancy. The families of the famous scientist Dmitry Mendeleev and the rector of the university Andrey Beketov were friends, communicated, spent a lot of time together. Little Sasha and Lyuba, having a year difference in age, knew each other from childhood - they often walked in the garden, accompanied by family or nannies. Having matured, the guys staged performances together, experiencing the same passion and craving for the theater. Shakespeare was a favorite author for young theatergoers. Alexander played Hamlet, and Love played Ophelia. The feeling that broke out between teenagers led young people to the logical end of the ensuing relationship - a wedding. Block's chronological table in 1903 is replenished with an important event: the poet marries.
Strange union
Having made an offer in a solemn atmosphere and having received the long-awaited consent from his beloved, Blok Alexander Alexandrovich becomes a married man. The biography of the poet, it would seem,develops successfully, but in fact the marriage union turns out to be not entirely happy. The poet idolizes his wife, showers her with compliments, dedicates his creations. Alexander Blok seems to be the most ardent and tender lover from the outside. Poems about the Beautiful Lady and the Eternal Wife are dedicated to the beloved woman, but family life itself fails. The young wife cannot wait for the main action, the basis of marriage, from the newly-made husband: Blok does not allow physical intimacy with his wife. To a discouraged woman on their wedding night, he explains that he cannot be with her as with a street girl, because she is a Beautiful lady for him.
Suffering of Lyubov Dmitrievna
Lyubasha sheds tears, tries to look for the reason for her husband's unwillingness to be with her. She sews fashionable outfits, orders expensive perfumes and exquisite underwear, flirts with her husband, showing her feminine attractiveness in every possible way. But all to no avail. Alexander Blok remains true to his ideal. The poet's biography will eventually be filled with meetings with random women, a couple of romances with actresses, but his only and beloved wife will remain a deity for him, which he will not dare to touch, so as not to defile his purity. But the wife’s question about how to be both of them further, Blok answers that everyone is free in their choice, and they are free to choose others for themselves, even being married.
The life of a poet
Strange, filled with strong feelings and passions, but such a short lifethe great poet was destined to live. In total 41 years fate took away one of the best creators of the Silver Age. The life of Alexander Blok gave him the opportunity to feel true love, carry it through the years, experience a sense of commitment to a great cause - the poet sincerely believed in the ideas of the revolution, worked closely with the new government established in Russia in those years. He was a member of the directorate of the Bolshoi Theater, was a member of the Repertory Section of the Narkompros department. The Bolsheviks enthusiastically perceived the work of the young poet, called him the first in Russia.
However, Alexander Blok's poem "The Twelve" caused a flurry of negative emotions among the communists. The image of Jesus Christ, which the poet depicted in the work, did not please the majority of readers of that time. Blok's chronological table also includes the arrest of the poet during times of suspicion and mass executions. But at the request of an influential acquaintance of Blok, they released and dropped all charges of betrayal.
Towards the end of his life, the poet was ill a lot. He lived alone, his wife wandered around the world, playing roles in the theater, which she herself sponsored, owning some savings inherited from her famous father. Roman after novel started Lyubov Dmitrievna, still notifying her husband in her letters that she loved him alone in the whole world. Before his death, Alexander Blok must have realized the enormity of his mistake in marriage - the insistence that each of the spouses go on their own separate voyage. He dedicated one of the last lines to his wife with a plea for forgiveness: "Thisstrand - so golden, Isn't it from the old fire? Passionate, godless, empty, unforgettable, forgive me!" Blok died in 1921 from an incomprehensible illness - exhaustion, neurasthenia, mental disorder - the doctors never made a single diagnosis.
