Which Russian poet married Mendeleev's daughter Lyubov?

Alexander Blok married Lyubov Mendeleeva, the daughter of chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.

Blok and Lyubov knew each other from youth and married in 1903. Their relationship strongly influenced Blok’s early poetry, especially Verses on the Beautiful Lady, in which Lyubov became associated with the idealized “Beautiful Lady” of Russian Symbolism.

Lyubov was not merely known for her famous father: she was also an actress and later wrote about theatre. Blok became one of the leading Russian poets of the Silver Age, a period of major artistic experimentation before the Russian Revolution.

A common mix-up is to confuse Alexander Blok with other major Russian poets such as Nikolay Nekrasov, Sergei Yesenin, or Boris Pasternak. Blok’s marriage to Mendeleev’s daughter is a distinctive biographical link between Russian chemistry and Symbolist literature.