Dmitry Merezhkovsky — writer with roots in the Russian Empire
Dmitry Merezhkovsky was a leading Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, and religious philosopher who co-founded the Russian Symbolist movement with his wife Zinaida Gippius. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature ten times and spent the last 20 years of his life in Paris exile after fleeing the Bolsheviks.
Tracing the roots — St. Petersburg
Born in St. Petersburg in 1865, Merezhkovsky was a central figure of Russia's Silver Age of culture. His Christ and Antichrist trilogy, his religious-philosophical writings, and his salon in Paris made him one of the most influential Russian cultural exports of the early 20th century.
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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."