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Article: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
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- Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
The Russian poet Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880-1921) was a leading figure in the Russian symbolist movement. His strongly rhythmic poetry is characterized by metaphysical imagery, dramatic use of legend, and responsiveness to history and to social life.
Aleksandr Blok was born in St. Petersburg on Nov. 28, 1880. His father was a professor of law, and his mother a writer and translator; Blok thus grew up in an upper-class intellectual milieu. Summers were spent at Shakhmatovo, the Bloks' country home near Moscow. There the famous chemist D. I. Mendeleev was a neighbor, and in 1903 Blok married Mendeleev's daughter.
Blok had begun to write as a boy. ...
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... ... in the grand tradition of other bohemians of the time), Alexander Blok and the poets who influenced them or whom they influenced ... group for Shostakovich's "Romance-Suite, on Poems by Alexander Blok," wonderfully sung by Kuznetsova, and for the concluding ...
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