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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (; 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet. ==Life and career== Blok was born in Saint Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives were literary men, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg State University. After his parents' separation, Blok lived with aristocratic relatives at the manor Shakhmatovo near Moscow, where he discovered the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov, and the verse of then-obscure 19th-century poets, Fyodor Tyutchev and Afanasy Fet. These influences would affect his early publications, later collected in the book Ante Lucem. In 1903 he married Lyubov (Lyuba) Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, daughter of the renowned chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. Later, she would involve him in a complicated love-hate relationship with his fellow Symbolist Andrei Bely. To Lyuba he dedicated a cycle of poetry that made him famous, ''Stikhi o prekrasnoi Dame'' (''Verses About the Beautiful Lady'', 1904). During the last period of his life, Blok emphasised political themes, pondering the messianic destiny of his country (''Vozmezdie,'' 1910–21; ''Rodina,'' 1907–16; ''Skify,'' 1918). Influenced by Solovyov's doctrines, he had vague apocalyptic apprehensions and often vacillated between hope and despair. "I feel that a great event was coming, but what it was exactly was not revealed to me", he wrote in his diary during the summer of 1917. Quite unexpectedly for most of his admirers, he accepted the October Revolution as the final resolution of these apocalyptic yearnings. In May 1917 Blok was appointed as a stenograph for the Extraordinary Commission to investigate illegal actions ex officio Ministers〔(The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky )〕 or to transcribe the (Thirteenth Section's) interrogations of those who knew Grigori Rasputin.〔()〕 According to Orlando Figes he was only present at the interrogation.〔http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/DCARead?standardNo=0300081065&standardNoType=1&excerpt=true〕 By 1921 Blok had become disillusioned with the Russian Revolution. He did not write any poetry for three years. Blok complained to Maksim Gorky that his "faith in the wisdom of humanity" had ended. He explained to his friend Korney Chukovsky why he could not write poetry any more: "All sounds have stopped. Can't you hear that there are no longer any sounds?"〔Orlando Figes. ''A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924'', 1996, ISBN 0-7126-7327-X, pp 784-785〕 Within a few days Blok became sick. His doctors requested that he be sent for medical treatment abroad, but he was not allowed to leave the country. Gorky pleaded for a visa. On 29 May 1921, he wrote to Anatoly Lunacharsky: "Blok is Russia's finest poet. If you forbid him to go abroad, and he dies, you and your comrades will be guilty of his death". Permission was granted only on 10 August, after Blok had already died.〔 Several months earlier, Blok had delivered a celebrated lecture on Alexander Pushkin, the memory of whom he believed to be capable of uniting White and Soviet Russian factions.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Blok」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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