Articles by: Vladimir Golstein

Alexander Blok by Russian photographer, (19th century); Private Collection.

Sacred Violence in Blok’s “The Twelve.”

        He was pious, but rarely went to Church and did not like priests. But he spoke with rapture about Christ. —Baron Vrangel on Dostoevsky. Alexander Blok’s narrative poem, “Twelve” is undoubtedly a central text of the Russian Revolution, an event that has served as one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. But since the[Read More…]

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