The girl sang in the church choir... Poems

Alexander Blok — the greatest poet of the Silver Age of Russian culture, an innovator who changed the face of domestic poetry in the 20th century. Blok — a symbolist poet, whose poems, even at first glance understandable, reveal new depths of meaning to the reader with each reading — and then from the poetic lines grows a living, noble, extraordinarily unique personality of a person who has experienced much.

Reverent hymns in honor of the incomparable Beautiful Lady, piercing poems about Russia, poems from the famous cycles "The Snowy Mask", "On the Kulikovo Field", "The Terrible World", "Carmen", "Italian Poems" and many others have entered this book. The "Trilogy of Incarnation", compiled by Blok, like every cycle by Blok, is a significant event in Russian poetry, and each poem is an inseparable part of this event. The theme of once exalted love, the once lost happiness, the forever lost Light runs through all the poet's works. The symbolists awaited the second coming of Christ, and the revolution began…