Alexander Blok
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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was the most well-known Russian lyrical poet during the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
Blok in 1903
Portrait by Konstantin Somov, 1907
Shakhmatovo, Blok's country house
The Twelve (poem)
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The Twelve is a controversial long poem by Aleksandr Blok. Written early in 1918, the poem was one of the first poetic responses to the October Revolution of 1917.
Alexander Blok
…Mayakovsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold and two others. When the Socialist Academy of Social Sciences was established in 1918, Blok became a participant. His poem, The Twelve, written in 1918, describes 12 Red Guards in the violent chaos of the Russian Civil War, who are likened to the Apostles, while "Ahead of them, Jesus…
12 & Skythes by A. Block