Catilina

The inspired essay of Alexander Blok Katilin, dated April of 1918, adjoins such an "Pyphic" creations as the "intelligentsia and revolution", "twelve", "Scythians", when the poet, as he said later, was the last time he surrendered to the elements of the elements ". The episode from the bloody chronicles of ancient Rome is projected onto the terrible events of the Russian revolution, shocked the world, and is seen in the light of the epoch -making coup, similar to the coming of the Savior. The publication, in addition to the reproductive reproduction of “Catilina "(" Alkonost ", 1919), also includes comments and related materials that allow you to see the cultural context of the Blokov myth and present the further evolution of the poet, which ultimately came to the denial of the“ Scythian ”violence and the approval of the supremacy of human conscience.
compilers: S.S. Zlesnevsky, B.N. Romanov