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Events on Sunday 7 August 1921 1
1880 – 1921Alexander Blok (1880-1921)Died 7 August 1921, aged 40Alexander Blok, a leading poet of the Russian Symbolist movement, died in Petrograd after a long illness worsened by wartime hardship. His poem "The Twelve," written after the 1917 revolution, remains one of the best-known works of Russian modernist verse. His death is often seen as marking the end of the Symbolist era in Russian poetry.