Lyubov Blok was a dramatic actress, memoirist, and ballet historian. She was born into the family of Dmitri Mendeleev. Blok graduated from the Bestuzhev Courses and also studied acting. She worked at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre as well as in provincial theatres, where performed under the pseudonym Basargina. In 1903, she married the poet Alexander Blok. She served on the editorial board of the theatre journal "Love for Three Oranges”. She also worked as a director at the Young Theatre. Lyubov Blok was deeply engaged in the theory and history of ballet, writing articles and theatre reviews. During the First World War, she worked as a nurse and wrote frontline correspondence later published as “From the Letters of a Sister of Mercy”. After Alexander Blok’s death, she served for some time as artistic director of the Moscow Young Theatre. The collection of the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum holds Lyubov Blok’s personal letters, as well as several of her photographs.