"The Night Violet" is in widespread poetry of Blok, the definitive rift between the Symbolist movement and its greatest poet, and if, on the one hand, it has marked him an existential catabasi, however, has also opened more space to his poetry and, at the same time, has perhaps led to the end of Symbolism in Russian letters.

biographical information

Alexander Blok was born in St. Petersburg on November 16 1880. His mother, Aleksandra Andreevna Beketova, daughter of a famous botanist, rector of the University of Petersburg, had married eighteen The vovič with Aleksandr Blok, a law professor in Warsaw, brilliant man but eccentric and despotic and so covetous as not to heat the apartment at those latitudes. When Aleksandra Andreevna, woman for more neurotic and possessive, he went pregnant to visit her in Petersburg, they found so run down and unhappy that kept her with him. Blok was born there and her parents' marriage broke down. Nine years after his mother remarried the officer of the guard Franz Feliksovič Kublickij-Piottuch, rigid and anaffective man, with whom Blok never had a good relationship. The childhood of the poet took place in Šachmatovo, an estate of Beketov, surrounded by women, grandmother and aunts, all educated and translators from various languages. The first poems of Blok were written under the influence of Fet and later Vladimir Solovev, a mystic in whose poems were placed hopes for the advent Eternal Feminine of Goethe. So it was that the first collection of Blok "Verses on the Beautiful Lady" (or stichs Prekrasnoj Dame), [1904] (a variant of the Eternal Feminine), arousing the enthusiasm of neosimbolista guild of the Argonauts, which were part of the grandson of Solovëv Sergei and future friend-enemy Andrei Bely, meant that it also became part. In 1903 Blok married Lyubov Dmitrevna Mendeleeva, daughter of the famous chemist Dmitry Ivanovich. The enhanced relations between the Argonauts and his wife, along with intolerance for their possessed mysticism, contributed to the substantial rupture of the poet with his old companions marked by the publication "The unexpected joy" (Nečajannaja radost '), [1906], which They are part of the unknown and the poem "the Night Violet".

In the same year Blok, always interested in the theater, produced three "pièces": "The cabin of acrobats" (Balagančik), "The king on the square" (Korol 'na ploščadi) and "The Unknown" (Neznakomka), all pervaded by a fierce and tragic critic of mystical expectations and the useless waiting for the bride.

The relationship with his wife deteriorated rapidly; However, mutual infidelity and the premature death of a child not led them to a separation and the couple were always together until the death of the poet. From this point on, however, the descent of Blok, marked by successive collections, now inspired by the passion for the actress Natalja Volochova, now for the singer Ljubov Del'mas: "The snowy mask" (Snežnaja maska) [1907] "the earth under the snow" (Zemlja v snegu) [1908], "night time" (Nočnye časy), [1908-1910], to the "Garden of the nightingales" (Solov'inyj sad) [1914-1915], It draws on a more and more tragic existential condition. The war and the subsequent return produced a momentary inspiration Revolution, witnessed by the famous and problematic poem "The Twelve" (Dvenatcat ') [1918] and the poem "The Scythians" (Skify), then depression, silence and death August 7, 1921