* 1880 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet ( d. 1921 )

* 1880 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet ( d. 1921 )

* Russian Symbolist poet Alexander Blok wrote a poem entitled Ravenna ( May – June 1909 ) inspired by his Italian journey ( spring 1909 ).

* Russian — Blok, Alexander: The Fairground Booth a. k. a. The Puppet Show ( 1906 ); Evreinov, Nikolai: A Merry Death ( 1908 ), Today's Columbine ( 1915 ), The Chief Thing ( 1921 ; turned into film, La Comédie du bonheur, in 1940 ).

1960 ); Blok, Alexander: " The Puppet Show ", " The Light Wandered about in the Window ", " The Puppet Booth ", " In the Hour when the Narcissus Flowers Drink Hard ", " He Appeared at a Smart Ball ", " Double " ( 1902 – 1905 ; series related to Blok's play The Puppet Show under # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guro, Elena: " Boredom " and " Lunar ", from The Hurdy-Gurdy ( 1909 ); Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich: " Where will I find words " ( 1906 ), " In sad and pale make-up " ( 1912 ).

It became conventional to refer to Russians as Scythians in 18th century poetry, and Alexander Blok drew on this tradition sarcastically in his last major poem, The Scythians ( 1920 ).

She became close friends with Boris Pasternak ( who, though married, proposed to her many times ) and rumours began to circulate that she was having an affair with influential lyrical poet Alexander Blok.

mystical representation of love so typical of poets like Alexander Blok and Andrey Bely.

It began the careers of several major poets such as Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, and Marina Tsvetaeva.

Well-known poets of the period include: Alexander Blok, Sergei Yesenin, Valery Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont, Mikhail Kuzmin, Igor Severyanin, Sasha Chorny, Nikolay Gumilyov, Maximilian Voloshin, Innokenty Annensky, Zinaida Gippius.

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* August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet ( born 1880 )

Not far from Solnechnogorsk is the estate of Shakhmatovo that once belonged to a prominent Russian poet Alexander Blok ; a museum of him has been opened there.

* 1964 Italian Songs, text by Alexander Blok for soprano, flute, horn, violin and harpsichord

Among those who wrote or spoke against false accusations of the Jews were Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Korolenko, Alexander Blok, Alexander Kuprin, Vladimir Vernadsky, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Pavel Milyukov, and Alexander Koni.

He studied fauna of European Russia and of Siberia ; published one of the first works on fauna of Kazakhstan based on the collections of the famous traveller S. Karelin ( great grandfather of the poet Alexander Blok ).

Along with the Eleventh String Quartet, the Preface to the Complete Works, and the Seven Romances on Texts by Alexander Blok, the Second Cello Concerto signaled the beginning of Shostakovich's late period style.

Alexander Blok, 1907

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (; 7 August 1921 ) was a Russian lyrical poet.

Several months earlier, Blok had delivered a celebrated lecture on Alexander Pushkin, the memory of whom he believed to be capable of uniting White and Soviet Russian factions.

* Dmitri Shostakovich wrote a late song cycle for soprano and piano trio, Seven Romances of Alexander Blok

* 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German wife of Alexander II of Russia ( d. 1880 )

* 1880 – Alexander Grin, Russian author ( d. 1932 )

The tsar's most influential adviser was Konstantin Pobedonostsev, tutor to Alexander III and his son Nicholas, and procurator of the Holy Synod from 1880 to 1895.

* 1932 – Alexander Grin, Russian novelist ( b. 1880 )

Alexander Graham Bell used the light-sensitive property of selenium to Photophone transmit sound over a beam of light in 1880.

# Robert Alexander Lamberton ( 1880 – 1893 ), lawyer

) Another of the Sherman daughters, Eleanor, was married to Alexander Montgomery Thackara at General Sherman ’ s home in Washington, D. C., on May 5, 1880.

One emperor, Alexander II, married morganatically in 1880.

It was invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter on February 19, 1880, at Bell's laboratory at 1325 L Street in Washington, D. C.

Sternberg, The Evening Traveler, September 1, 1880, The Alexander Graham Bell Papers at the Library of Congress

* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )

* Kee-too-way-how (‘ Sounding With Flying Wings ’, better known as Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born 1834 St. Boniface, Manitoba, son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was of Métis descent he became chief of the Willow Cree and the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother of Petequakey (‘ Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau ’), lived along Duck Lake, signed 1876 Treaty 6 and settled in a reserve at Muskeg Lake-that was later named after his brother Petequakey-but left the reserve in 1880 and lived again in the following years close to St. Laurent de Grandin mission, played a prominent role during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 in which he participated in every battle, served also as an emissary of the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont to ask the Assiniboine for support, on 23 May 1885 he also submitted the declaration of surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker ') to General Middleton, was captured on the 1st June 1885, in the subsequent trial of Kee-too-way-how at Regina, Louis Cochin testified that he and the carters in the camp of Pitikwahanapiwiyin survived only thanks to the intercession by Kee-way-too-how and its people, despite the positive testimony, he was on 14 August 1885 sentenced to imprisonment for seven years for his involvement in the Métis rebellion, died 1886 ).

In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter created the Photophone, at Bell's newly established Volta Laboratory in Washington, DC.

* Alexander Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia ( 1880 )

* Entry for Alexander Watkins Terrell from the Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas published 1880, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus ( 1865 ); Die attische Beredsamkeit ( 1868 – 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1887 – 1898 ), his greatest work ; editions for the Teubner series of Andocides ( 1880 ), Antiphon ( 1881 ), Hypereides ( 1881, 1894 ), Demosthenes ( Dindorf's ed., 1885 ), Isocrates ( 1886 ), Dinarchus ( 1888 ), Demosthenes ( Rehdantz ed., 1893 ), Aeschines ( 1896 ), Lycurgus, Leocrates ( 1902 ); Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa ( 1901 ); Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa ( 1905 ).

The city was founded by newspaper and railroad man Alexander St. Clair-Abrams in 1880 and named for a Portuguese ancestor.

* “ Weston ” by Charles Alexander Nelson in Samuel Adams Drake, compiler, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 2 ( L-W ), 1880, pp. 488-505.

S. aureus was first identified in Aberdeen, Scotland ( 1880 ) by the surgeon Sir Alexander Ogston in pus from surgical abscesses.

* Walter G. Alexander ( 1880 – 1953 ), first African American member of the New Jersey Legislature.

In 1880, Canadian-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur ( 1846 – 1912 ), representing the Scottish Carolina Timber and Land Company, arrived in Newport with ambitious plans to log the Pigeon valley.