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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok: Quick Facts

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Born November 28, 1880 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died August 7, 1921 (aged 40) • Russia
Notable Works “Stikhi o prekrasnoy dame” • “The Twelve”
Movement / Style Symbolism

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Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov
Russian poet
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Andrey Bely
Russian poet
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Russian author
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author
Merezhkovsky
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Russian author
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Russian poet
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Peretz Markish
Russian writer
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879
Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy
Russian writer
Karamzin, portrait by V.A. Tropinin, 1815; in the State Literature Museum, Moscow
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Karamzin
Russian author
Ratushinskaya, Irina Georgiyevna
Irina Georgiyevna Ratushinskaya
Russian poet, essayist and dissident
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Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov
Russian writer
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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
Russian poet
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Aleksey Mikhaylovich Remizov
Russian writer
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Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius
Russian poet

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