Blok usually did not curtain the window of his study, and it sometimes shone until the morning, and the poet looked at the roofs of St. Petersburg and the panorama of Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. At that time, he was already recognized as the “king of poets”, and there were fans who came to his apartment just to kiss the doorknob.

However, the poet himself was modest and removed. Not because I've been in the mountain worlds all the time. He was trying to protect himself from the chaos of life. There was another way of protection: the Block drank a lot. It happened that during the night he visited all restaurants and restaurants of Nevsky. Friends remembered that after drinking, he remained restrained, sad, with a clear look. He often went to the pub at the corner of Bolshaya Zelenin and Geslerovsky (now Chkalovsky) Prospekt.

Blok said that the setting of his drama The Stranger, which Meyerhold staged in 1914, was completely copied from this pub - not only interior details, but also the characters. From the Bolshaya Zelenin side you can see the Krestovsky Bridge and the alley described in the second vision of “The Stranger”.

As for the house in which the poet lived, it was designed by architect Pavel Vasilyevich Rezvy. Until 1950, this Art Nouveau building was decorated with a spire, but during the next renovation it disappeared.