Symbolist and detached mystic – but also a poet captured by the element of the uprising people, "music of the revolution," one of the most important Russian poets, a central figure of the Silver Age – all this is Alexander Blok. The poet created many deep, powerful, mesmerizing poems, gifting readers with the most important examples of civic, love, and philosophical lyrics. "Scythians" – a collection of selected works by the poet: from "Verses about the Beautiful Lady" to the celebrated poem "The Twelve".