'Poems about the Beautiful Lady' is Alexander Blok's first poetry collection (1904), one of the pinnacles of Russian Symbolism. Mystical, musical poems about eternal femininity, love, and spiritual quest, inspired by the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov and the poet's love for Lyubov Mendeleeva.
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Alexander Blok was a Russian poet.
He was born on 16 November (28 November, New Style) 1880 in Saint Petersburg.
Blok’s mother was the daughter of Andrei Beketov, rector of Saint Petersburg University. Soon after Alexander’s birth, the poet’s mother left her husband, the Warsaw lawyer Alexander Lvovich Blok (1852–1909), and in 1889 married for the second time, to Guards officer F. F. Kubitsky-Piotukh, while leaving her son his first husband’s surname.…
