Aleksandr Blok

A Life

• Author(s): Nina Berberova,
• Publisher: Carcanet
• Pages: 146
• ISBN_10: 1857540980
  ISBN_13: 9781857540987
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures ,

Description:... Alexander Blok (1880-1921), one of Russia's greatest modern poets, lived through a period in which a staid and traditional world was being destroyed and a new, often alarming utopia was being projected. A member of the intelligentsia and of the Russian landed aristocracy, Blok changed from being a detached observer of revolution into a committed servant of the Russian people. His early poetic mysticism gave way to the historical vision of his most famous poem, The Twelve.