In the study two interconnected knots of questions around the interpre-tation of Alexander Blok's poem "Twelve" are considered. The first plot is de-voted to the reasons for the appearance of Jesus Christ in its final. As an analysis of A. Blok's work showed, he viewed the revolution of 1917 in Russia as one of the stages of the collapse of the old and the formation of a new world, a new civilization. As a symbolist Alexander Blok realized that the civilization emerging before his eyes was to have some new symbol. Some- one had to go before the twelve Red Guards, symbolizing developing new world. But this "third force" had not matured at that time. Alexander Blok was not a politician, but as an artist he decided the question of who would go ahead of the twelve Red Guards. From this point of view, Lenin could not be the Other, Solovyev - either. Christ remained. And it was not clear who, except Christ, could go ahead. The second plot is devoted to the influence of the tragedy of Johann Goethe "Faust" on the content of the poem "Twelve". One can come to the conclusion that Alexander Blok tried on Faust's fate when, after having ended "Twelve", wrote that he was a genius. Ingenious doctor Faust concluded the alliance with devil in exchange for new knowledge, wealth and wordly pleasures, however managed to outwit Mephistopheles, did good deeds thanks to that he appeared after death in paradise, but not in hell. Blok finishing the poem realized that he was being deceived, that he was entering an alliance, selling his soul to the "revolution-ary devil", but he wanted to be deceived and longed, like Faust, "to depart" to safe immortality''. And Jesus Christ could help him in this, going at the end of the poem "in a white nimbus of roses" in front of twelve Red Guards.
Alexander Blok, «Twelve», Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, poem, Faust, Goethe, revolution
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