Mikhail Prishvin and Alexander Blok

Abstract

Comparing the October revolution to a tub where an individual is boiled to a pulp, Prishvin likens Bolshevism to a sectarian movement whose purpose is to turn a person into a featureless and silent creature. Prishvin thinks that it was the fact that the poet did not endure the temptation and, having previously resisted the Khlyst tub, he did not simply rushed to the crazy tub of the revolution but apologetically sang of it in his poem "The Twelve", that was Blok's tragedy