Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865-1941), born in Saint Petersburg, studied history and philology there. In 1889 he married the poet Zinaida Hippius. A lecture in which he called for the renewal of Russian literature against the realism of the previous generation passed for one of the first manifestos of symbolism. He afterwards played an important part in the return of religious and philosophical questions within the intelligentsia. He left Petrograd in December 1919 and settled in Paris, where he died on 9 December 1941.

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• NovelThe Death of the GodsСмерть богов. Юлиан ОтступникDmitry Merezhkovsky · 1895LiteraturePublic domain