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Alexander Blok (1880-1921) was the principal representative of Russian Symbolism, a modernist literary movement influenced by its European counterpart but deeply imbued with Eastern Orthodox religious and mystical thought. He is one of the central figures of the Silver Age of Russian poetry, a period of extraordinary artistic intensity at the turn of the twentieth century.

In his work, Blok united two historical epochs: the mystical symbolism that foresaw the collapse of the old world, and the revolutionary storms through which a new world struggled to be born. His poetry moves between rapture and despair, faith and doubt, spiritual longing and political urgency, reflecting the inner tensions of both the poet and his time.