About the book: 2020 / "A Romance with Blok" is an action-packed historical detective story, written based on real events by the recognized master of this genre, chairman of the St. Petersburg Detective Club Nikita Filatov. What is the role of the poet and citizen in the face of danger threatening the Fatherland? During the First World War, Alexander Blok made a difficult choice for himself and went into the active army, while the majority of representatives of the so-called “creative intelligentsia” preferred to sit on the couch with a newspaper. After the February Revolution, Blok became secretary of the Extraordinary Investigative Commission in Petrograd. The poet and security officer plunged into the intricacies of palace intrigue, into the world of military espionage and undercover work of the secret police. Among the characters in “The Novel about Blok” are his wife and mother, poets Nikolai Gumilyov, Andrei Bely and Anna Akhmatova, head of the Police Department Stepan Beletsky, an aspiring writer Korney Chukovsky, the famous attorney at law Nikolai Muravyov and even the future People's Commissar of the NKVD Genrikh Yagoda. “A Romance with Blok” is distinguished by authenticity. The author clearly and convincingly dispels the myths associated with the last years of the life and work of the great poet in Soviet Russia.