His mother married a military man, and the building where they lived belonged to the barracks on the outskirts of St. Petersburg at that time. Here Sasha went to a gymnasium, far from an elite one, where he somehow studied among the most motley audience: the children of workers and engineers, the troubled and the poor.

Living in a barracks apartment, where he had a bedroom and an office, Sasha will write his early works and become famous, here he will experience his first feelings for a woman, he will have a relationship with a married woman a lady twenty years older than him. Here he will become a student and fall in love with his muse, his Beautiful Lady — Lyuba Mendeleeva, because of her love for whom he will almost commit suicide. Here he will get her consent to marry and begin to meet with her secretly, let us note, for spiritual fellowship.

Here he will write a letter and start a relationship with his best friend and future rival in love, poet Andrey Bely. This is where the strange and difficult family life of Blok and his young wife will begin, with whom a bodily connection will take place only a year after the wedding. There will be an intricate, chaotic love triangle between Alexander, Any and Andrey Bely.

Now this period of the poet's life is laconically evidenced only by a memorial plaque on the former barracks house.