This book is a selection from the vast legacy of the genius of 20th-century Russian poetry. It includes many works by Alexander Blok from his “novel in verse,” the poems “Retribution” and “The Twelve,” plays, and prose of various genres. Also presented are excerpts from his diaries and notebooks, selected letters, and recollections of Blok by contemporaries.
The personality of Alexander Blok, his fate in an inseparable union of life and literature—this is the unifying idea of the book.