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BLOK RUSSIAN POETRY

BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1880-1921). Zemlya v snegu. Tretyi sbornuk stikhov [Land in the Snow. Third Collection of Poems].

Moscow: ["Zolotoe Runo"], 1908. 196 pp., 8vo (250 x 170 mm). Decorated two-color wrappers designed by Evgeni Evgenievitch Laceray. Condition: wrappers soiled and reattached. [Together with 2 other works by Blok:] Solovinyi sad [Garden of Nightingales]. Petersburg: "Alkonost," 1918. 12mo (135 x 90 mm). Condition: wrappers repaired and reglued. one of 3000 copies. Pesnya sudby. Dramaticheskaya poema Song of Fate. Poetic Drama]. Petersburg: "Alkonost," 1919 (198 x 142 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by Aleksandr Yakolevich Golovin. Condition: wrappers repaired and reglued. as a leader of the russian symbolist movement, blok was one of the most important russian poets of the twentieth century. The Silver Age of Russian Poetry has been called the "Age of Blok." Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva all admired his work. Remarkably he embraced Russian Revolution and composed his most controversial work Dvenadtsat [The Twelve] (1918) in which he likened twelve Bolshevik soldiers in Petrograd to the Twelve Apostles of Christ. (3)