Blok Alexander Alexandrovich is a great Russian poet who gained fame at the beginning of the 20th century. Chanting the Russian revolution in his works, Blok did not tire of dedicating poetry to his only love, which he carried through his whole life.
Chronological table
November 16, 1880 is the date of birth of the poet.
1889-1898 - study at the gymnasium.
1898-1906 - study at St. Petersburg University. Slavic-Russian branch of the Faculty of History and Philology.
1903 - Blok was married to Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva.
1904 - the poet’s first book, entitled “Poems about the Beautiful Lady,” dedicated to his wife, is published.
1905-1908 - Alexander Blok realized his true commitment to the ideas of the revolution. All subsequent work of the poet was associated with the chanting of the bright undertakings of the Bolsheviks. The poet was recognized and appreciated by compatriots.
1907-1911 - Block travels in Italy, Germany, Europe. A cycle of beautiful works has been created. "Italian Poems" is an outstanding creation of the poet.
1916 - beginning of service in the army, in an engineering and construction team.
1917 - work in the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry. "The Last Days of Imperial Power" is a book written by Blok on the basis of experience.
1921 - the last public appearance of the Bloc before the people.
On August 7, 1921, the poet died of an unknown illness.
Representative of the Russian intelligentsia
The chronological table of the Block begins in St. Petersburg. The famous Russian poet was born in 1880, November 16 (in a new style - November 28). The family of Russian intellectuals, in which the boy was brought up, from childhood gave the poet ideas about the beautiful, respect for science and literature. Alexander Blok’s grandfather A.N. Beketov was the rector of the university, Alexander A. mother worked as a translator, father Alexander L. Blok served as a professor of law at the University of Warsaw. Blok’s chronological table includes one difficult event in the poet’s childhood - the divorce of parents. The child remained to be brought up in the family of his grandfather, surrounded by a loving mother, aunts and grandmothers in the Shakhmatovo estate.
But the poet carried his father's surname. Blok Alexander Alexandrovich remained the son of his father until the end of his life, although at the age of nine he moved with his mother to his stepfather. Alexandra Andreyevna remarried a guard officer and took her son with her. In the same 1889, little Sasha entered the gymnasium.
Creation
Brought up on the works of A.S. Pushkin, V.A. Zhukovsky, A.A. Fet, the poet began to create 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 read works, but poetic talent was evident. Over time, Blok's works filled with strength, he wrote more, in his childhood he even tried to publish magazines. Youthful loves were reflected in poems. As an adult, Blok devoted cycles of verses to women. Beautiful lady - the image that arose in the poet's heart was forever imprinted in his works. The prototype was Lyubov Mendeleev - the wife and lover of the poet.
Only love
The poet met his beautiful lady almost in infancy. The families of the famous scientist Dmitry Mendeleev and the university rector Andrei Beketov were friends, talked, spent a lot of time together. Little Sasha and Lyuba, who have a year of age difference, have known each other since childhood - they often walked in the garden, accompanied by home or nannies. Growing up, the guys put on plays together, experiencing the same passion and craving for theater. Shakespeare was a favorite author for young theatergoers. Alexander played Hamlet, and Love played Ophelia. The feeling that flared up between the teenagers led the young people to the logical end of the relationship that began - the wedding. Blok's chronological table in 1903 is replenished with an important event: the poet marries.
Strange union
Having made an offer in a festive atmosphere and received the long-awaited consent from his beloved, Alexander Aleksandrovich Blok becomes a married man. The biography of the poet, it would seem, is developing successfully, but in fact the marriage union is not entirely happy. The poet worships his wife, showers her with compliments, devotes his creations. The most ardent and tender lovers seems to be Alexander Blok. Poems about the Beautiful Lady and the Eternal Wife are dedicated to the beloved woman, but family life itself is collapsing. The young wife cannot wait for the main action from the newly made husband, the foundations of the marriage: Block does not allow physical intimacy with his wife. On the first wedding night, he explains to a discouraged woman that he cannot be with her as with a street girl, because she is a beautiful lady for him.
Suffering Lyubov Dmitrievna
Lyubasha sheds tears, trying to look for a reason for her husband’s unwillingness to be with her. Sews fashionable outfits, orders expensive perfumes and exquisite underwear, flirts with her husband, in every possible way showing her feminine attractiveness. But all to no avail. Blok Alexander Alexandrovich remains true to his ideal. Over time, the poet’s biography will be filled with meetings with random women, a couple of novels with actresses, but the only and beloved wife will remain for him a deity to whom he does 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 if they are married.
Poet's life
A strange poet, filled with strong feelings and passions, but such a short life was destined to live a great poet. Only 41 years fate took 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 that established in Russia in those years. He was a member of the directorate of the Bolshoi Theater, was a member of the repertoire section of the department of the People's Commissariat of Education. The Bolsheviks enthusiastically perceived the work of the young poet, called him the first in Russia.
However, the poem of Alexander Blok "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 appeal to most readers of that time. Blok’s chronological table also includes the arrest of the poet at the time of suspicions and mass executions. But at the request of an influential acquaintance of Blok, they were released and all charges of treason were dropped.
By 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 sponsored, owning some savings inherited from her famous father. Romance after romance was started by Lyubov Dmitrievna, still informing her husband in letters that she loved him alone in the whole world. Before his death, Alexander Blok must have understood the enormity of his mistake in marriage - the insistence that each spouse go on a separate voyage. He devoted one of the last lines to his wife with a prayer for forgiveness: "This strand is so golden, Is it not from the old fire? Passionate, godless, empty, unforgettable, forgive me!" Blok died in 1921 from an incomprehensible disease - exhaustion, neurasthenia, mental disorder - the doctors did not make a single diagnosis.