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The article provides an overview of Alexander Blok’s correspondence with his mother, Alexandra Andreevna Kublitsky-Piottukh, one of the most significant personalities in his life. A close spiritual connection, psychological closeness, and a unique mutual understanding are characteristic of their relationship. The need for continuous communication throughout life shows that the mother’s influence on Block’s life was enormous. The correspondence has not been completely preserved: all the letters of the mother were destroyed at her request, and the epistolary dialogue is reconstructed from the poet’s letters, many of which have been published with various ommissions until now. The article reproduces some of them. The specificity of Blok’s letters to his mother is that, unlike his correspondence with his wife or friends (Andrei Bely, Sergei Solovyov), he does not build any mythopoetic plots, never puts on a mask, and does not endow her with any life-creating roles. That is why Blok’s letters to his mother become a kind of biographical substrate or the basis for various variations of the autobiographical myth, and the most important source for studying his biography.

Keywords: Alexander Blok, A.A. Kublitskaya-Piottukh, epistolary dialogue, biographical source, reconstruction.