Alexander Blok City

Poems. Poems. From the diaries

Cover handmade genuine leather (shagreen) original design

Format 140x210 mm

500 p.

100 numbered copies.

Original colored etchings and black-and-white illustrations

Paper Olin Regular (France)

The path of the Block was rapid and short between his first and last poems was not more than twenty years. The turn of the century came exactly to the middle of the poet's life "exclusive, shared, loved, propavshego for everyone." The desire to restore the broken link of times – the emotional and semantic leitmotif of the creativity Block. Critics unanimously declared him a poet of St. Petersburg, where the unfolding acts of the drama of being at break times. This collection is quintessential to the elements of the city, Blok's the anthem of the City.

String of infinity metaphors, shimmering vision of the city at night and the impressionistic looseness of the contours of the perfectly transmitted by the etchings of Peter Perevezentseva, performed in the symbolic Block colors: black, white, blue, red.

The original fan cover (three binding cap) resembles the folder with the manuscripts of poems in which the author could keep their creations. The inner cover is adorned with the etching of a portrait of Alexander Blok.