Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic.
Blok in 1903
Blok's poem as wall poem in Leiden
Blok, 1917, The Winter Palace
Portrait by Konstantin Somov, 1907
Solnechnogorsk is a town and the administrative center of Solnechnogorsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Moscow–St. Petersburg Highway and the Moscow–St. Petersburg railway, on the coast of Senezh Lake, 65 kilometers (40 mi) northwest from Moscow. Population: 52,944 (2010 Russian census); 58,374 (2002 Census); 55,554 (1989 Soviet census).
Sovetskaya Square in Solnechnogorsk