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1. Milestones in the work of the poet of the "Silver Age"

BLOK Alexander Alexandrovich, Russian poet, was born on November 16 (28), 1880, in St. Petersburg.

He began his poetic activity in the spirit of symbolism (“Poems about the Beautiful Lady”, 1904), the feeling of the crisis of which he proclaimed in the drama “Puppet Show” (1906).

Blok's lyrics, close to music in their "spontaneity", were formed under the influence of the romance. Through the deepening of social trends (the cycle "City", 1904-1908), the comprehension of the "terrible world" (the cycle of the same name, 1908-1916), the awareness of the tragedy of modern man (the play "Rose and Cross", 1912-1913) came to the idea of ​​the inevitability of "retribution "(the cycle of the same name 1907-1913; the cycle "Yamba", 1907-1914; the poem "Retribution", 1910-1921). The main themes of poetry were resolved in the Motherland cycle (1907-1916).

He tried to comprehend the October Revolution in the poem "The Twelve" (1918), journalism. The rethinking of the revolutionary events and the fate of Russia was accompanied by a deep creative crisis and depression.

2. Family. Childhood and education

Father, Alexander Lvovich Blok, - lawyer, professor of law at Warsaw University, mother, Alexandra Andreevna, nee Beketova (in her second marriage, Kublitskaya-Piottukh) - translator, daughter of the rector of St. Petersburg University A. N. Beketov and translator E. N. Beketova .

Blok's early years were spent in his grandfather's house. Among the brightest childhood and adolescent impressions are the annual summer months in the Beketovs' Shakhmatovo estate near Moscow. In 1897, during a trip to the resort of Bad Nauheim (Germany), he experienced the first youthful passion of K. M. Sadovskaya, to whom he devoted a number of poems, which were then included in the Ante Lucem cycle (1898-1900) and in the collection Beyond the Past Days (1920 ), as well as the cycle "After twelve years" (1909-14). After graduating from the Vvedensky gymnasium in St. Petersburg, in 1898 he entered the law faculty of St. Petersburg University, but in 1901 he transferred to the historical and philological faculty (he graduated in 1906 in the Slavic-Russian department). Among the professors under whom Blok studied are F. F. Zelinsky, A. I. Sobolevsky, I. A. Shlyapkin, S. F. Platonov, A. I. Vvedensky, V. K. Ernshtedt, B. V. Warneke. In 1903 he married the daughter of D. I. Mendeleev, Lyubov Dmitrievna.

3. Creative debut

He began writing poetry at the age of 5, but conscious adherence to his vocation begins in 1900-01. The most important literary and philosophical traditions that influenced the formation of a creative individuality are the teachings of Plato, the lyrics and philosophy of V. S. Solovyov, and the poetry of A. A. Fet.

In March 1902, he met Z. N. Gippius and D. S. Merezhkovsky, who had an enormous influence on him; in their journal "New Way" (1903, No. 3) Blok made his creative debut as a poet and critic.

In January 1903 he entered into correspondence, in 1904 he personally met A. Bely, who became the poet closest to him from the younger symbolists. In 1903, the Literary and Artistic Collection: Poems of Students of the Imperial St. Petersburg University was published, in which three of Blok's poems were published; in the same year, Blok's cycle "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" (the title was proposed by V. Ya. Bryusov) was published in the 3rd book of the almanac "Northern Flowers".

In March 1904, he began work on the book "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" (1904, on the title page - 1905). The traditional romantic theme of love-service received in "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" that new content that was introduced into it by the ideas of Vl. Solovyov about merging with the Eternal Feminine in the Divine All-Unity, about overcoming the alienation of the individual from the world whole through a love feeling. The myth of Sophia, becoming the theme of lyrical poems, transforms beyond recognition in the inner world of the cycle the traditional natural, and in particular, the "lunar" symbolism and paraphernalia (the heroine appears above, in the evening sky, she is white, a source of light, scatters pearls, emerges, disappears after sunrise, etc.).

4. Participation in the literary process 1905-09

“Poems about the Beautiful Lady” revealed the tragic impracticability of “Soloviev’s” life harmony (motives of “blasphemous” doubts about his own “vocation” and about his beloved, who can “change her appearance”), putting the poet before the need to search for other, more direct relationships with the world. The events of the 1905-07 revolution played a special role in shaping Blok's worldview, exposing the spontaneous, catastrophic nature of life. The theme of “elements” penetrates into the lyrics of this time and becomes the leading one (images of a snowstorm, blizzards, motifs of freemen, vagrancy).

The image of the central heroine changes dramatically: the Beautiful Lady is replaced by the demonic Stranger, the Snow Mask, the schismatic gypsy Faina. Blok is actively involved in literary everyday life, published in all symbolist magazines (“Questions of Life”, “Scales”, “Pass”, “Golden Fleece”), almanacs, newspapers (“Word”, “Speech”, “Hour”, etc. ), acts not only as a poet, but also as a playwright and literary critic (since 1907 he has been leading the critical department in the Golden Fleece), unexpectedly for fellow symbolists, revealing interest and closeness to the traditions of democratic literature.

Contacts in the literary and theatrical environment are becoming more and more diverse: Blok visits the “Club of the Young”, which united writers close to the “new art” (V.V. Gippius, S.M. Gorodetsky, E.P. Ivanov, L.D. Semenov, A. A. Kondratiev and others). Since 1905, he has been visiting "Wednesdays" on the "tower" of Vyach. I. Ivanov, since 1906 - "Saturdays" in the theater of V. F. Komissarzhevskaya, where V. E. Meyerhold staged his first play "Balaganchik" (1906). The actress of this theater N. N. Volokhova becomes the subject of his stormy passion, the book of poems "Snow Mask" (1907), the cycle "Faina" (1906-08) are dedicated to her; her features - a "tall beauty" in "elastic black silks" with "shining eyes" - determine the appearance of "natural" heroines in the lyrics of this period, in "The Tale of the One Who Would Not Understand Her" (1907), in the plays " Stranger", "King in the Square" (both 1906), "Song of Fate" (1908). Collections of poems (Unexpected Joy, 1907; Earth in the Snow, 1908), plays (Lyric Dramas, 1908) are published.

Blok publishes critical articles, makes presentations at the St. Petersburg Religious and Philosophical Society ("Russia and the Intelligentsia", 1908, "Elements and Culture", 1909). The problem of “the people and the intelligentsia”, the key one for the creativity of this period, determines the sound of all the topics developed in his articles and poems: the crisis of individualism, the place of the artist in the modern world, etc. His poems about Russia, in particular the cycle “On the Kulikovo Field” ( 1908), combine the images of the motherland and the beloved (Wife, Bride), imparting a special intimate intonation to patriotic motives. The controversy around articles about Russia and the intelligentsia, their generally negative assessment in criticism and journalism, the increasing realization by Blok himself that a direct appeal to a wide democratic audience did not take place, leads him in 1909 to a gradual disappointment in the results of journalistic activity.

5. The crisis of symbolism and creativity 1910-17

The period of “revaluation of values” becomes for Blok a trip to Italy in the spring and summer of 1909. Against the backdrop of political reaction in Russia and the atmosphere of self-satisfied European philistinism, the only saving value is high classical art, which, as he later recalled, “burned” him on an Italian trip. This set of moods is reflected not only in the cycle Italian Poems (1909) and the unfinished book of prose essays The Lightning of Art (1909-20), but also in the report On the Current State of Russian Symbolism (April 1910). Drawing a line under the history of the development of symbolism as a strictly defined school, Blok stated the end and exhaustion of a huge stage of his own creative and life path and the need for a “spiritual diet”, “courageous apprenticeship” and “self-deepening”.

Receiving an inheritance after the death of his father at the end of 1909 freed Blok for a long time from worries about literary earnings and made it possible to concentrate on a few major artistic ideas. Having distanced himself from active publicistic activity and participation in the life of literary and theatrical bohemia, from 1910 he began to work on the great epic poem "Retribution" (which was not completed).

In 1912-13 he wrote the play The Rose and the Cross. After the publication of the collection Night Hours in 1911, Blok revised his five books of poetry into a three-volume collection of poems (vols. 1-3, 1911-12). Since that time, Blok's poetry exists in the reader's mind as a single "lyrical trilogy", a unique "novel in verse", creating a "myth about the path". During the life of the poet, the three-volume edition was reprinted in 1916 and in 1918-21. In 1921, Blok began preparing a new edition, but managed to finish only the 1st volume. Each subsequent edition includes everything significant that was created between editions: the cycle "Carmen" (1914), dedicated to the singer L. A. Andreeva-Delmas, the poem "The Nightingale Garden" (1915), poems from the collections "Yamba" (1919) , "Gray Morning" (1920).

Since the autumn of 1914, Blok has been working on the publication of Apollon Grigoriev's Poems (1916) as a compiler, author of an introductory article, and commentator. On July 7, 1916, he was drafted into the army, served as a timekeeper in the 13th engineering and construction squad of the Zemsky and City Unions near Pinsk. After the February Revolution of 1917, Blok returned to Petrograd and became a member of the Extraordinary Investigative Commission to investigate the crimes of the tsarist government as an editor of verbatim records. The materials of the investigation were summarized by him in the book The Last Days of Imperial Power (1921, published posthumously).

6. Philosophy of culture and poetic creativity in 1917-21

After the October Revolution, Blok unambiguously declared his position by answering the questionnaire “Can the intelligentsia work with the Bolsheviks” - “Can and must”, publishing in January 1918 in the Left Socialist-Revolutionary newspaper “Znamya Truda” a series of articles “Russia and the Intelligentsia”, which opened with the article "Intelligentsia and Revolution", and a month later - the poem "The Twelve" and the poem "Scythians". Blok's position provoked a sharp rebuke from Z. N. Gippius, D. S. Merezhkovsky, F. Sologub, Vyach. Ivanov, G. I. Chulkov, V. Piast, A. A. Akhmatova, M. M. Prishvin, Yu. I. Aikhenvald, I. G. Ehrenburg and others. , with noticeable caution spoke about the alienness of the poem to the Bolshevik ideas about the revolution (L. D. Trotsky, A. V. Lunacharsky, V. M. Friche). The greatest bewilderment was caused by the figure of Christ in the finale of the poem "The Twelve". However, contemporary criticism of Blok did not notice the rhythmic parallelism and echo of motives with Pushkin's "Demons" and did not appreciate the role of the national myth of demonism for understanding the meaning of the poem.

After The Twelve and The Scythians, Blok wrote comic poems “just in case”, preparing the last edition of the “lyrical trilogy”, but did not create new original poems until 1921. At the same time, from 1918, a new upsurge in prose creativity began. The poet makes cultural-philosophical reports at meetings of Volfila - the Free Philosophical Association ("The collapse of humanism" - 1919, "Vladimir Solovyov and our days" - 1920), at the School of Journalism ("Katilina" - 1918), writes lyrical fragments (" Neither Dreams nor Reality”, “Confessions of a Pagan”), feuilletons (“Russian Dandies”, “Compatriots”, “Answer to the Question about the Red Seal”).

A huge amount of what was written is connected with Blok's service activities: after the revolution, for the first time in his life, he was forced to seek not only literary earnings, but also public service.

In September 1917 he became a member of the Theatrical and Literary Commission, from the beginning of 1918 he collaborated with the Theater Department of the People's Commissariat for Education, in April 1919 he transferred to the Bolshoi Drama Theater. At the same time he became a member of the editorial board of the publishing house "World Literature" under the leadership of M. Gorky, from 1920 - chairman of the Petrograd branch of the Union of Poets.

Initially, Blok's participation in cultural and educational institutions was motivated by convictions about the duty of the intelligentsia to the people. However, the sharp discrepancy between the poet's ideas about the "cleansing revolutionary element" and the bloody everyday life of the advancing totalitarian bureaucratic regime led to increasing disappointment in what was happening and forced the poet to seek spiritual support again. In his articles and diary entries, the motive of the catacomb existence of culture appears. Blok's thoughts about the indestructibility of true culture and about the "secret freedom" of the artist, resisting the attempts of the "new mob" to encroach on it, were expressed in the speech "On the Appointment of the Poet" at the evening in memory of A. S. Pushkin and in the poem "Pushkin House" (February 1921), which became his artistic and human testament.

In April 1921, the growing depression turns into a mental disorder, accompanied by heart disease. On August 7, Blok died. In obituaries and posthumous memoirs, his words from a speech dedicated to Pushkin about the “lack of air” that kills poets were constantly repeated.

List of used literature

1. Anikeev A.P. Russian poets of the Silver Age. -M.: Thought, 2003

2. Magomedova D. M. Block Alexander Alexandrovich. -M.: Enlightenment, 1981

3. Russian literature. Encyclopedia for children. -M.: Avanta +, 2004

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The Silver Age is a short period in the development of Russian literature. By the strength and energy of amazing creations, the poetry of that time was proclaimed a worthy successor to the greatest artistic discoveries of Russian classical literature of the 19th century. But the poets of the Silver Age not only developed the traditions of their predecessors, but also created unique masterpieces. The poetry of this period is amazing and unique.
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Note that he turned to eternal ideas that are important to man. Of all the symbolist poets, the work of Alexander Blok is closest to me. I consider him one of the brightest representatives of the Silver Age.
Blok is an outstanding phenomenon in Russian poetry. This is one of the most remarkable symbolist poets. He never retreated from symbolism: neither in youthful poems full of fogs and dreams, nor in more mature works. The literary heritage of Alexander Blok is extensive and diverse. It has become a part of our culture and life, helping to understand the origins of spiritual quests, to understand the past.
According to the poet himself, his lyrics in all its diversity is a single work. This work, created all his life, is a reflection of his creative path. "Collected Poems" in three volumes was compiled by Blok for many years. From this collection it is not difficult to trace the formation of Blok as a poet, the gradual transition from dreams to reality. The transition, of course, is very conditional, but noticeable.
The poems of the young Blok amaze with their purity and tenderness. Of course, he is not free from the influence of his predecessors and contemporaries, but this does not prevent him from creating his own, unique. The poet entered the world of people with love and faith in a bright and pure world. Love is one of the main motives of his lyrics. The path to the world, according to Blok, must be carried out with the help of love. And this is precisely what is traced in “Poems about a Beautiful Lady”. Blok is in search of an ideal, Eternal Femininity.
I anticipate you.
Years pass by
All in the guise of one I foresee You.
The whole horizon is on fire - and unbearably clear,
And silently I wait, yearning and loving.
In his dedications to the Beautiful Lady, he leaves the surrounding reality, locks himself in his thoughts.
From Blok's later work, I like the poem "The Stranger". At the first reading, you are simply amazed at the beauty and magnetism of the image of a mysterious stranger created by the poet:
And breathe ancient beliefs
Her elastic silks
And a hat with mourning feathers
And in the rings a narrow hand.
But dreams of the Beautiful Lady cannot protect Blok from real life.
Reality still penetrates his world. The verses “Factory”, “Fed”, “On the railway” and these lines appear:
How hard it is to walk among people
And pretend to be invincible
And about the game of tragic passions
To narrate to those who have not yet lived.
The events of the early twentieth century had a decisive influence on the revision of his life values.
We are the children of the terrible years of Russia -
Nothing can be forgotten.
Block moves away from dreams and increasingly looks into the eyes of reality. Youthful daydreaming is being replaced by a consciousness of one's civic duty, an understanding of responsibility to one's country. Alexander Blok feels for the Motherland, on the one hand, a feeling of love, longing for her, compassion, and on the other, faith in her beautiful future and a desire to change the life of her people for the better. It is this excitement for the future of the Motherland that overwhelms the lyrical hero in the poem "The Twelve". The poem is filled with symbols. It begins immediately with a sharp contrast: “Black evening. White snow". Black color - evil, storm, spontaneity, unpredictability, white - purity, spirituality, light. The color red is also found in the poem. This is not only the color of flags and slogans, it is the color of blood.
Blok has a cycle of poems “On the Kulikovo Field”, where in every word one feels great love for the Motherland. “Oh, my Rus'! My wife!" - this is how the poet addresses her, that is, not only as a living thing, but as the closest being in the world. The image of Russia is imperceptibly intertwined with the female image all the time. For Blok, the Motherland is a woman; she is like the "beautiful stranger" to whom the poet refers in his early poems. Love for the motherland and love for a woman for Blok are inseparable and equally significant concepts.
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Russian poet of the Silver Age Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was born on November 28, 1880 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a professor of philosophy and law.

The boy was raised by his grandfather, the famous botanist A. N. Beketov.

At the age of 5, Blok began to write poetry.

After the gymnasium in 1898, Alexander Blok entered St. Petersburg University at the Faculty of Law, but later transferred to the Faculty of History and Philology, from which he graduated in 1906 in the Slavic-Russian department.

During this period, he became close to the symbolists Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Valery Bryusov and Andrei Bely. The poet published his first cycle of poems “From Dedications” while still a student in the journal “New Way”.

At the same time, his first book of poems, Poems about a Beautiful Lady, was published, dedicated to Lyubov Dmitrievna, the daughter of the famous chemist Mendeleev, whom Blok married in 1903.

The second book of poems was published in the period 1904-1908, dedicated to the poet's feelings and thoughts on the revolutionary events that took place in the country and greatly influenced Blok.

The theme of Russia and feelings about the fate of the people are reflected in his work - in the collections "Motherland", "On the Kulikovo Field", "Earth in the Snow", in the poems "Scythians", "Retribution".

In the summer of 1917, Blok began work on the manuscript, which he considered as part of the future report of the work of this commission, these materials were published in the form of a book in 1921 called "The Last Days of Imperial Power."

Blok enthusiastically accepted the October Revolution of 1917 and immediately took an active civic stand.

The new government widely used the name of the poet, in 1918-1920 Blok was appointed and elected to various positions in committees and commissions.

But he did not leave literary creativity either.

In January 1918, his poems "The Twelve" and "Scythians" were published, and then a number of poems, lyrical fragments "Neither dreams nor reality" and "Confession of a pagan", feuilletons "Russian dandies", "Compatriots", "Answer to the question about red seal.

But the poet's financial situation forced him to seek not only literary earnings, but also public service.

Since 1918, he collaborated with the Theater Department of the People's Commissariat for Education, in April 1919 he moved to the Bolshoi Drama Theater and at the same time was a member of the editorial board of the publishing house World Literature, in 1920 he became chairman of the Petrograd branch of the Union of Poets.

In February 1921, at an evening in memory of Alexander Pushkin at the House of Writers, Blok delivered his famous speech "On the Appointment of a Poet."

The ever-increasing volume of work undermined the strength of the poet - he developed a serious cardiovascular disease and asthma.

In the spring of 1921, Blok asked for an exit visa to Finland for treatment, but the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), at a meeting which considered this issue, refused him.

On August 7, 1921, the poet Alexander Alexandrovich Blok died in Petrograd, where he was buried at the Smolensk cemetery. In 1944, the ashes of the poet were reburied at the Literary bridges of the Volkovsky cemetery.

In 1980, in the house on Dekabristov Street, where the poet lived and died in recent years, the museum-apartment of Alexander Blok was opened.

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Alexander Blok - favorite poet of the Silver Age

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1. Biography and creative path of the poet

2. My favorite works of Blok

3. My impression of Blok and his work

My favorite poet of the Silver Age is Alexander Alexandrovich Blok. A talented man with a difficult fate, broken by war, revolution and illness, lived only 40 years. He became famous as a publicist, critic, playwright, but the most significant trace was left by a rich collection of poems. The poet knew how to bewitch with words, enveloping the prosaic and ordinary with mysticism, plunging into the mysterious depths of images and fantasies.

The poet was born in 1880 in St. Petersburg, in an intelligent family. Alexander received a decent education, having studied first at the Vvedenskaya Gymnasium, and then at St. Petersburg University, first at the Faculty of Law, and then at the Faculty of History and Philology.

Years of student life bring him together with friends and future colleagues. Alexander's creative abilities manifested themselves very early: at the age of 5 he wrote his first poem, and from the age of 10 he began to conduct journalistic activities in magazines. In 1904, the first published collection “Poems about the Beautiful Lady” was published, dedicated to his beloved wife Lyubov Mendeleeva, feelings for which Blok would carry through his whole life, through the difficulties and temporary chills inherent in his rebellious soul.

In the future, Alexander continues to develop in the poetic field, travels around Europe, makes new acquaintances. These impressions had a productive effect on his career. The October Revolution gives him a new breath. Drawing inspiration from the popular revolt, Blok is engaged in journalistic activities and writes the famous poem "The Twelve", caustic, metaphorical and brilliant.

The end of the poet's life path is tragic: the Soviet government, to which he was completely devoted, did not spare him. In 1921, a heart disease ends the life of a young man. Until the last hour, his Beautiful Lady, the permanent muse Lyubov Mendeleev, remains by his side.

It is impossible not to mention the delightful "Stranger", one of the most recognizable works of the poet. Wallowed in the turmoil of life, Alexander sought consolation and found it in the form of a lady under a veil. The patriotic poem “On the Kulikovo Field” cannot but touch, where the poet expresses devotion to his long-suffering homeland with great trepidation.

The poem "Demon" (Come, follow me - submissive ...) captivates with frightening beauty, which, nevertheless, I really want to touch. The author lures and keeps the reader with a magnificent style as skillfully as a lyrical and dangerous hero - an unfortunate girl.

Alexander was a difficult, contradictory man, succumbing to passions. Personal characteristics and talent, given to him from above, made it possible to present ordinary problems and emotions familiar to every person in a new, unusual light. Blok's poetry is very complex: metaphors and symbols make you think about what exactly is meant, but this is its value and charm.

Alexander Blok - the poet of the "Silver Age". In the history of the formation of true true Russian culture, the "Silver Age" occupies one of the special places. Alexander Blok, in turn, is the brightest representative of this time.

The first collection of poems The first volume () Cycle "Crossroads"; Cycle "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" Third volume () "It's all about Russia" Second volume () Cycle "Bubbles of the Earth"; Cycle "City"

Blok reveals the main meaning of the stages of the path he has traveled and the content of each of the books of the trilogy: ... this is my path, now that it has been completed, I am firmly convinced that this is due and that all the poems together are a trilogy of incarnation (from a moment of too bright light through the necessary swampy forest to despair, curses, retribution * and ... to the birth of a social person, an artist, courageously looking into the face of the world ..).

The story of earthly, quite real love is transformed into a romantic-symbolic mystical-philosophical myth. It has its own plot and its own plot. The basis of the plot is the opposition of the earthly (lyrical hero) to the heavenly (Beautiful Lady) and at the same time the desire for their connection, meeting, as a result of which the transformation of the world should come, complete harmony. However, the lyrical plot complicates and dramatizes the plot. From poem to poem, the mood of the hero changes: bright hopes and doubts about them, expectation of love and fear of its collapse, faith in the immutability of the image of the Virgin and the assumption that it can be distorted (But it’s scary to me: you will change your appearance).

“I enter dark temples…” What is the emotional atmosphere of the poem? By what means is it created? What are the subject matter of the poem, its colors? What is the lyrical hero of the poem? Is the appearance of the Beautiful Lady traced? By what means is her image created?

The name we have proposed - SYMBOLISM - is the only suitable name for the new school, only it conveys without distortion the creative spirit of modern art September 18, 1886 Paris. Le Figaro Newspaper Jean Moreas "Manifesto of Symbolism" Jean Moreas "Manifesto of Symbolism" The human perception of the world is imperfect, therefore the depicted reality is erroneous The human perception of the world is imperfect, therefore the depicted reality is erroneous The secrets of the world can only be comprehended emotionally and intuitively The secrets of the world can be comprehended only emotionally and intuitively of this “higher truth” and at the same time the way to comprehend it is a hint symbolThe reflection of this “higher truth” and at the same time the way to comprehend it is a hint symbol From the history of symbolism

Autumn motif 1899 Elegies in painting What kind of painting do you imagine with this title? What is the difference between content and title? What is the significance of the autumn motif in the work? there is no historical concreteness (“it’s just a beautiful era”) the color is built on the consonance of large color spots soft muted color oval motif musicality of lines