Zinaida Gippius

Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945) came from Belyov. In 1889 she married the poet Dmitry Merezhkovsky. Their salon on Liteyny Prospect, in Saint Petersburg, was one of the centres of Symbolism, and in 1901 she was among the founders of the Religious and Philosophical Meetings. She signed her criticism with masculine pseudonyms, among them Anton Krainy. Hostile to the Bolsheviks, she left Russia through Poland and settled in Paris, where from 1927 to 1939 she led the Green Lamp circle. She died in Paris on 9 September 1945.

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• PoetryСобрание стихов. 1889–1903Zinaida Gippius · 1904not translated into EnglishLiterature