Recollections of Three from the Silver Age            13

At the time he was young and well-built, he held his bead proudly,
and he had a halo of curly hair and the face of a young Goethe.
He was even more handsome than Somov's rather lifeless portrait
of him. Like Vyacheslav Ivanov, Balmont, Briusov, Voloshin and
 

Alexander Blok in i
 

907.
 

the others, Blok wore a black frock coat and a black silk bow tie,
although unlike the other "Byronians," Blok wore his collar turned
down. This was more or less the uniform of poets at the time, and
the tradition still remains.