RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism2312-92202312-9247Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)1815010.22363/2312-9220-2018-23-1-7-28Research ArticleRemembering him through the blood in my vein (A.L. Blok in A.A. Blok’s life and literary career)SarychevVladimir A<p>doctor of philological science, professor, professor, the Russian Language and Literature Department, Institute of Philology</p>serychev.yaroslav@yandex.ruInstitute of Philology Lipetsk State Pedagogical P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University1512201823172828032018Copyright © 2017, Sarychev V.A.2017<p>The article is devoted to the study of dramatic relationship between Blok and his father. Unlike the previous researchers who described the fathers role in the poets life as insignificant and negative, the author of this article claims that there were some covert spiritual bonds between the father and the son. To prove this statement the author provides the readers with a wide scope of material, including epistolary evidence (Bloks letters describing his father), reminiscences of relatives, acquaintances, students of the Warsaw professor, notes with his bright scientific ideas. The author arrives at the conclusion that there was a deep affinity between the father and the son which served a conceptual basis for the poem Retribution at which the poet was working till the last days of his life.</p>A.A. Blok“father’s shadow”“covert affinityyearning for illusionspilgrims of spiritdemonic individualismtragic view upon the worldА.А. Блок«тень отца»«тайное» родствотоска по иллюзиистранники духадемонический индивидуализмтрагическое миросозерцание[Aleksandr Blok v vospominaniyah sovremennikov: v 2 t. [Alexander Blok in memoirs of contemporaries: 2 volumes]. M., 1980.][Aleksandr Blok. Novye materialy i issledovaniya. Lit. Nasledstvo [New materials and researches. Literary Heritage]. M., 1980. T. 92. Kn. 1. 565 s.][Aleksandr Blok. Novye materialy i issledovaniya. Lit. Nasledstvo [New materials and researches. Literary Heritage]. M., 1981. T. 92. Kn. 2. 415 s.][Beketova M.A. Vospominaniya ob Aleksandre Bloke [Memories about Alexander Blok]. M., 1990. 672 s.][Blok A.A. Sobr. soch.: v 8 t. [Collection of works: 8 volumes]. M.; L., 1960—1963.]