Add a review about the monument to Alexander Blok in Moscow

Of course, Alexander Blok is a Petersburg poet. "My city is incomprehensible," he wrote of the great city on the Neva, with which his entire life was tied. But Moscow, the ancient capital of Russia, played a big role in the fate of the poet. Near Moscow, poems dedicated to his Beautiful Lady, Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, were born in romantic Shakhmatovo, the "multi-blind blue Russian distance" entered his poetic consciousness, brilliant poems about Russia, plays, articles were created. And in Moscow itself in the first Years of the twentieth century formed a circle of admirers of Blok's poetry, which included his relatives OM and MS Solovyov, their young son Seryozha Solovyov and Boria Bugaev, the future Andrei Bely. It was in Moscow that Blok was appreciated and recognized before it was in St. Petersburg, wrote MA Beketova.

Soon after the wedding, Alexander Blok and his young wife Lyubov Dmitrievna spent fifteen days in Moscow. It was in January 1904.

For many years it was completely incomprehensible why it was on Spiridonovka that a monument to Alexander Blok, executed with love and talent by the famous sculptor O. Komov, was installed. By the way, even in St. Petersburg there is no real monument to A. Blok - only a small figure of the poet near the University. It Moscow erected a worthy monument to the poet-prophet, and not by accident on Spiridonovka. But came unexpected joy, and a commemorative plaque on the house in the year of the 125th anniversary Block Set "Heritage Committee", promptly and favorably considered the appeal of the literary and cultural community, already desperate in the struggle to return the memorial plaque to the new Russian vandals who settled at the Blok address

Now in this corner of old Moscow, an amazing literary route has finally taken shape . It starts from home A . P . Tolstoy at Nikitsky Boulevard, where he spent his last days and died of H . . In Gogol and where in the yard modestly nestled an outstanding monument to the writer made H . A . . Andreev Further, by Fedor restored church Studit associated with the name of a . . In Suvorov, a pilgrim come to the revived church of the Great Ascension, where married a . . from Pushkin . front of the temple - shehtelevsky mansion with . . P Ryabushinsky, in which, after his return from Italy, he lived A . M . Gorky and where his museum was located . Wall in the wall with Gorky's house - at C piridonovke Memorial Museum A . H . Tolstoy, then the house number 4 exquisite art gallery "The New Hermitage", which often exhibited works by Russian artists of the early twentieth century, near . A Block, is proud of the friendship and attention of the poet ... And next door - the house where Alexander Blok lived, and Komov monument to him .

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Address: Moscow, st.m. Arbatskaya Str. Spiridonovka, 6.