Dmitry Merezhkovsky — writer with roots in the Russian Empire
Dmitry Merezhkovsky (14 August 1865, St Petersburg – 9 December 1941, Paris) was a Russian poet, novelist, critic and religious thinker. He co-founded Russian Symbolism, and his 1892 lecture is widely regarded as an early manifesto of the movement. He married the poet Zinaida Gippius in 1889. Sources give nine or ten nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He left Russia in December 1919 and lived in France until his death.
Tracing the roots — St. Petersburg
Born in St Petersburg in 1865, the son of a senior official, Merezhkovsky lived in Russia until December 1919, when he left via Minsk, Vilno and Warsaw and settled in France.
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St. Petersburg. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"God and the devil are the two faces of the infinite."