The Stranger

"He does not repeat the themes of others, but with fearless sincerity draws the content of his poems from the depths of his soul. <…> Blok somehow immediately created his own style, largely original..." — said V. Bryusov. Alexander Blok invented his own poetic language, the meaning of which is to be sought between the lines. He virtuously combined low genres and high style in his work. Each Blok cycle is a significant event in Russian poetry, and each poem is an integral part of this event. The image of A. Blok remains a strange, mysterious, tragic shadow, just as his poetry was.