Alexander Blok (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (Russian:, 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1880 - 7 August 1921) was one of the most gifted lyrical poets produced by Russia after Alexander Pushkin. Blok was born in Saint Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives were men of letters, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg State University. After his parents' separation, Blok lived with aristocratic relatives at the Shakhmatovo manor near Moscow, where he discovered the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov, and the verse of then-obscure 19th-century poets, Fyodor Tyutchev and Afanasy Fet. These influences would be fused and transformed into the harmonies of his early pieces, later collected in the book Ante Lucem.