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The Twelve. Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok] ⓘ; 28 November [ O.S. 16 November] 1880 – 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic.
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok was a poet and dramatist, the principal representative of Russian Symbolism, a modernist literary movement that was influenced by its European counterpart but was strongly imbued with indigenous Eastern Orthodox religious and mystical elements.
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The son of a law professor and a writer, Russian Symbolist poet and playwright Alexandr Blok was born in St. Petersburg in 1880. He studied law and then philology at the University of Petersburg. A supporter of the Russian Revolution, Blok joined both the Russian army and the Communist Party in…
Oct 18 2020. Alexandra Guzeva. Public Domain; Yury Annenkov; Russia Beyond. Follow Russia Beyond on Twitter. Alexander Blok was a true star of St Petersburg in the early 20th century....
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880-1921) was a leading figure in the Russian Symbolism, and had a huge influence on Russian poetry. He was born in 1880 into a family of a law professor of Warsaw University and a talented writer and translator.
Alexander Blok Александр Александрович Блок, (November 16, 1880 - August 7, 1921), was probably the most gifted lyrical poet produced by Russia after Alexander Pushkin. He was the one of the leading figures of the Russian Symbolist movement, together with contemporary Andrei Bely .
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Aleksandr Blok, (born Nov. 28, 1880, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Aug. 7, 1921, Petrograd [St. Petersburg]), Russian poet and dramatist. He was the principal representative of Russian Symbolism (see Symbolist movement). He later rejected what he termed their sterile bourgeois intellectualism and embraced the Bolshevik movement as essential for ...
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